I think I
Think that I
Think too much
Thinking I think
That thinking this
And thinking that
I think makes
Thinking I think
Thoughtless
Where as trusting
That me untrusting
You with trusting
Me trusts that
These things that
I think that
I think thinking
Turns this thinking
Into untrusting thoughtless
Thinking I think
I told you
Things because you
Asked and now
Like a dog
On a leash
I feel you
Pulling away seeking
Freedom let you
Go I did
But rather than
Run like a
Dog at last
Free you picked
Up my secrets
Like a stick
And brought them
Back to me
Wagging and jumping
Saying in your
Tender playful voice
Throw me another
Now I know
Why you pull
It’s not to
Run away but
Rather to retrieve
What’s meaningful to
You bringing it
Back to me
When I think
I’m thinking you
Like a child
Flummoxed by an
Algebra assignment told
That this goes
With that I
Drift instead wondering
Do we and
Not these belong
Together because as
Teaching taught us
We do not
Yet we do
Do belong together
Then like that
Child forced to
Understand it clicks
A times B
Does equal AB
Me times you
Does equal us
When I think
Of that of
Us I smile
And as I
Step slowly into
The cold swirling
Currents atop one
Slick stone then
Another until I
Am thigh high
In uncertainty I
Reach back reach
Forth back and
Forth whipping the
Line and landing
It delicately upon
The surface letting
It hang there
Like my tentative
Hello wondering if
You this you
A shimmering trout
In a river
Of revelers will
Take the fly
And rather than
Run away from
Me instead swim
Closer shoulder to
Shoulder eye to
Eye whispering hi
There fly fisherman
You’ve caught me
Fancy a drink
Ending one circle
Of life and
Beginning quite another
I don’t rely
On inspiration but
Rather upon others
There are and
Have been in
My life a
Very few that
Like a fisherman
Reeling in a
Swordfish allowing it
To struggle and
Fight trying to
Flee and eventually
Caught pull the
Words from me
Like that hook
That I took
In order for
Me to be
And they being
Who they are
Resulting in these
Things called poetry
It is they
That make me
And not me
That make them
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 