I will need time
After spinning so long
Like a goofy child
Falling to the ground
Watching the world fly
Like knowing I shouldn’t
But yes I did
Drink that last Manhattan
Now not even familiar
Seems similar to anything
Let me find bed
And sleep off the
Past few hard years
And emerge no worse
For the wear there
I hear it coming
Like distant train whistles
Or fronts through leaves
I smell its call
Like faraway fall burn
Or a passing fragrance
I taste its allure
Like a surprise soufflé
Or a spicy Shiraz
I’m here over here
Playing hide and seek
Those always playful sisters
Silly serendipity and coquettish curiosity
I will find you
In the Rocky Mountains
Once I leave Charlotte
I remember that corner
And that street lamp
And oh that snow
And mmm that look
When you trotted across
A wet dead street
Stood inches from me
And in that place
In that light snow
And in that chill
You quietly kissed me
I still go back
To that same place
But it’s different now
It’ll always be different
Than that one November
Sometimes things just don’t
Dreams so often hoped
Situations that appear great
Someone that surprised you
Someplace stumbled upon accidentally
All seem right then
But don’t turn out
Like parties nobody attends
Like gifts never wanted
But always lovingly given
Or like Christmas Eve
Snow that never arrives
Right guy wrong time
These are some disappointments
That’re best left behind
The hardest part about
Leaving is the decision
And not the goodbye
Goodbyes come in varieties
So long see you
We’re done it’s time
What’s gut wrenching is
Deciding that it’s over
Whatever it was its
It wasn’t is always
What makes you decide
Eventually to go admitting
That whatever it was
Isn’t anymore is like
Casting a life preserver
Overboard and following it
Into the nothingness sea
It’s scary as hell
Attempted by the courageous
And crazy lucky ones
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 