Candles

I awoke so happy

Like my twelfth birthday

When the perfect cake

Was placed before me

And the lit candles

Harbingers of my wishes

Eyes closed and blowing

Would certainly come true

That’s how I felt

Today knowing they had

MonkeyBars

You know that moment

When you just know

That gurgle those butterflies

You know but don’t

And you hesitate right

Before what is it

That makes you go

A kiss is nothing

More than monkey bars

At once on top

With no down below

Beneath just you and

There and then then

UntilThen

I saw you last

Night again last night

Not really met you

But certainly saw you

Sitting across from me

Just sitting here talking

And somewhere between work

And life between cereal

And juice it happened

The normal cadence of

Things when two things

Only know one thing

And that thing happens

I will meet you

One day until then

Wind

What is the pain

Called that is silent

Is it the wind

The wind moves along

Lonely and by itself

Having been one place

And then another bumping

Into things changing some

Making no difference to

Itself

Walls

The only voice that

I hear now is

My own bouncing off

Of the empty walls

Of my heart empty

That is except for

Etched scrawls reminding me

Who was here before