It’s the center 
not the extreme 
that brings comfort 
like a pillow 
the fringe is
simply decoration meant 
to entice but 
the center is 
where one rests 
his head is 
the strongest part 

Very few people 
actually love me 
and that’s heartbreaking 
for I have 
loved so many 
and been forgotten 
by even more 
so why even 
love at all 
in this world 
we keep looking 
looking looking looking 
for something somebody 
someone and somewhere 
usually else just 
how much looking 
does one have 
to do before 
one eventually stops 
this over looking 

He’s now become 
a harbinger a
bellwether a barometer 
a faint light 
on the mountaintop 
signaling a danger 
a keep away 
sign don’t touch 
at first I
thought maybe jealousy 
or even envy 
but no it’s 
something else entirely 
concern and care
is his intention 
and now whereas
before I was 
the one holding 
the lantern low
showing him where 
to slowly step 
he has taken 
point showing me 

Obviously I mean 
much to him
even during his 
darkness he reached 
out to me 
like a ghost 
telling me things 
and warning me 
of the doom
funny all this 
now after meeting 
again and discovering 
that we each
fought our own 
battles in the 
exact same war
on different fronts 
both emerging victorious 
from the dust
of what we 
once had been 

I’d like company 
now I think 
having for so
long stood on 
top of the 
same craggy cliff 
sending my light 
through haze fog
mist and darkness 
showing others their 
way safely home 
I think that 
I’d like company 
something like me 
let’s start small 
how about fireflies 
they are silly 
little things dancing 
about giving little 
light to anyone 
but joy and 
glee to everyone