Before before I wanted
to remember every nook
and cranny of my
then life I kept
memorizing memories like a
teenage girl remembering love
notes thinking that maybe
if I keep them
and recall them and
sigh about them then
maybe they will stay
but now with this
before this before after
the first before and
before this new now
came a firestorm which
scorched everything and those
precious fantasies of before
before turned into the
wasteland of now before
and now this new
now from the ashes
of everything gone before
and before before’s comes
hope and experience and
no longer expectation for
expectation burned before beforehand
Category: Affection
Locket
There are some that
I like and some
that I love and
some that I hold
and some that I
avoid and some that
I deny and some
that I dream and
some that I touch
and then there are
some that I kiss
and it always seems
that those that I
kiss remain the longest
not necessarily next to
me but here in
me for a kiss
my kiss is like
a note in a
bottle or a message
tied to a balloon
for a kiss to
me is like unlocking
my own hearts locket
Sunrise
I always sneak away
quietly like a cat
conscious to not disturb
you there sleeping slithering
like a snake belly
down so as not
to awaken you lumbering
across cold floors like
the last drunk in
the bar to start
the coffee when I
hear you move and
call knowing that you’re
wondering and then knowing
what is coming next
your smile and kiss
are sunrise to me
Morn’n
Even now this early
as the sky lightens
ever so slowly from
black to slightly blue
like I am a
whale rising from the
deep that blue that
painful bruise blue happens
for just a minute
until that blue becomes
a different blue and
then that turns to
something else just like
my morning kiss with
you starts one place
and always ends another
Prayer
Lord if I die
tonight I will die
knowing that I did
my best with what
you have given me
and that I have
loved and never not
loved those needing it
and those who offered
theirs to me and
if I should leave
tonight that they too
will come with me
here in my heart
and I will remain
there in theirs too
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 