Toes

A philosophy says

That each of

Us has three

True loves in

Life usually the

First is yourself

Only then can

You truly love

Another in my

Case I loved

First wandering in

The wilderness and

Finally loved me

It was a

Path of which

I don’t recommend

Concentrate on you

First and dance

There with you

Before you step

On another’s toes

Sense (for Jay)

The funny part

And one which

Most don’t get

Is that life

Works itself out

Oh we spend

So much time

Entertaining and chasing

These dreams that

We make up

That we miss

The simple things

That life gives

Take that deep

Breath kiss that

Child pet that

Puppy and sip

That steamy espresso

It’s in those

Senses where you’ll

Find most sense

GoodMorning

And now the

Birds outside my

Windows have begun

To sing the

Tickling morning melodies

Awakening a sleepy

Saul who is

Stretching and yawning

Soft crimson east

Beyond the trees

Like the aroma

Of apple pie

Wafting through checker

Curtained kitchen windows

Or like your

Rough shadow as

It brushes against

My cheek kissing

Me good morning

JustAsFriends (for Bean)

And it came

Like a cautious

Step on a

Freshly iced pond

His voice from

Afar hesitant tentative

Like the hand

Of a child

To the jowls

Of sleeping dogs

It was not

What I expected

Or dreamed or

Thought it’d be

It was simply

A new stranger

Once again asking

For some time

Absent the cacophony

The bombshell barrage

Of our last

Campaign months ago

It is now

Peace time now

A time to

Collect the dead

And start over

Just as friends

SandWater

And like water

Added to sand

You sit there

Inside me being

You and making

Me from dryness

Into a pool

Where birds splash

And fish swim

And I you

Too give you

A reason to

Be something other

Than what you

Originally have been