And today I
Feel like a
Balloon freed from
The grasp of
A child floating
Free high above
Things winds pushing
Me lifting me
The sun warm
On my round
Body up I
Climb up higher
Higher higher still
Carried over sea
Now descending low
Back to where
I belong as
A new found
Surprise for the
The grasping hand
Of another child
And like crabgrass
You found that
One crack in
My cement and
Wheedled your way
Into my heart
Never the same
For now you
Are here giving
Me your color
Joined we are
Together we’ll be
One just solid
The other beautiful
Like a duck
On a pond
I spied you
There sitting in
The marsh pretending
To be the
Trees I heard
Your heart race
Smelling your breath
Fly I will
Giving you thrills
Shoot me you
May not because
I’m free you’re
The wet one
Pretending to be
Something else hoping
To take me
Down by surprise
You never find
What you seek
In the place
That you look
Lost things show
Up in unlikely
Places and often
Aren’t what you’re
Looking for but
Instead need so
Goes love try
Not to look
For a type
But instead be
Happy for it
That you’ve found
Today my heart
Sings and yet
Is sad a
Young child gets
A new heart
Today but that
Means another lost
Theirs remember that
When you give
Your heart to
Someone else you
Lose your own
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 