You don’t know you
Just don’t know how
Many times I pulled
Up but never got
Out you don’t know
How many letters or
How many texts I
Started and then deleted
Knowing that when you
Walked out you walked
Out of us and
Back into only you
I was a stranger now
And if we ever
Should stumble upon each
Other it would be
No better no worse
No more familiar or
No more odd than
The very first time
Sometimes letting people go
Gives them a chance
To come back once
They are ready to
And he was ready
It’s funny needing things
You make bad decisions
Plugging holes in dikes
Which is what I
Tried to hopelessly do
Everything was just fine
Until the storms came
Not even my hands
Could stop the surge
Down I finally went
You washed to sea
Me alone bobbing aimlessly
You out of sight
I pulled myself ashore
And made my peace
Knowing you were somewhere
Now maybe even happier
And finally after two
Years of absent distance
After two years of
Why’s and how comes
Of deafening heart break
Except for the tink
Tink tink of the
Sounds of the pieces
Of my heart hitting
The floor Bean returned
From the ashes arose
A love friendship love
That never did die
And now warms us
As we once again
Huddle closer to it
You know well you
Do know this you
Know even though you
Will deny this you
Always do when you
Don’t want to you
Say no it’s you
You do that you
Think that only you
No one but you
You’re right it’s you
I think about you
But come on you
Do too don’t you
Sometimes you find happiness
In the unlikely places
Steamy early morning coffee
During the mornings sunrise
That last whispered goodnight
Followed by that first
Surprisingly ticklish good morning
But now I realize
That where I find
My happiest of happiness
Is in your eyes
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 