Is it possible
To meet yourself
To find you
In someone else
I talk to
You as easily
As skating across
A Vermont pond
In January I
Watch you like
I watch daffodils
Dance in summer
Breezes listen to
You like a
Priest in confession
Be with me
My love and
Let my fingers
Know you like
My heart does
I am older
And like last
Years bouquet of
Wildflowers I retain
My beauty though
Different my fragrance
Is gone but
The memories of
My gathering still
Blooms and then
One freshly cut
Bud is added
To me making
Me blossom again
Like the first
I watch seasons
Turn I have
Seen the blossoms
Of spring slowly
Pop into summer
And the late
Fall winds carry
Leaves to winters
Carpet I have
Caught snowflakes
On my tongue
And built snowmen
With their siblings
I’ve witnessed springs
Warmth melt the
Dead of winter
Into slippery slush
And rarely been
Surprised until I
Stumbled across you
A new season
And you took
A chance on
A humid July
Day and lobbed
A message that
Caught me off-guard
Completely surprised I
Wondered who now
Is knocking here
Opening the door
A giant peered
It is I
Haven’t you been
Waiting for me
Different we are
As moon sun
As coffee milk
As soil rain
We are singly
Magnificent yet together
Something even better
A wonderful surprise
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 