It’s true I am
a rock much less
an obstacle and much
more a lean to
not much to get
over up or around
more as a place
to sit and to
take refuge to untie
shoes and rub weary
feet a place to
assess and take bearing
before continuing gaily on
I will always be
exactly where I am
whereas you will not
you’ll be a moment
Category: Friendship
After
There’s plenty
of room
in Heaven
it is
Earth we
have to
worry about
and none
of us
are ever
free to
go until
we have
finished what
we started
Birthday
I tried something
something I haven’t
something so different
that afterwards I
knew that I
wasn’t the same
and then this
new way I
was now became
who I am
and that this
very exact thing
is precisely what
all of us
did when we
decided to leave
paradise and become
the person who
you know now
who we all
know right now
happiest of birthdays
Then
One more hour
just one more
that I dread
not that I
dread you here
it’s the you
not I do
no matter how
I keep the
dogs of then
at bay no
matter how many
I chase off
then will find
their way in
dragging you off
then always wins
it always wins
ReallyReally
It’s just not
it’s not here
and not there
don’t tell me
to look there
for I have
I have looked
everywhere well everywhere
it’s ever been
and wherever I
have gone before
it’s just not
and now I’m
beginning to wonder
if it ever
really had been
if it’s not
where I thought
then really was
it ever really
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 