And yet again
As love is
Known to do
It surprised me
Coming from behind
Around a corner
Or even from
Right in front
It did appear
Like a sultan
On a camel
In the dessert
Of my life
Take my hand
I will take
You to my
Tent give you
Drink bathe you
In fragrant water
Letting you rest
For a while
There with me
In loves oasis
Sitting here thinking
Not really thinking
More like recalling
Someone that I
Scuttled long ago
After he outstayed
His brief welcome
Why is it
Those we wished
Forgotten somehow surface
Like ghoulish hands
From the graves
Seeking one more
Moment of life
Stay down there
Where you chose
To be and
Not up here
With the living
And the loving
This I know
You are windows
And not walls
You let me
See rather than
Keeping me hidden
You give me
Air to breathe
Sunshine to feel
Rain to watch
You teach me
Things about myself
That without windows
I’d never see
In the wood
Sat a prince
Thinking just thinking
Thinking about what
Was before him
Entering the wood
Came a man
Drawn by fire
Why so forlorn
He did ask
The young prince
There’s much to
Do he said
And you think
By sitting thinking
That it will
Be accomplished the
Man then asked
I don’t know
The young prince
Replied I do
The man said
Let us be
Friends let me
And not you
Slay the dragons
Let you be
The prince that
Will be king
That is friendship
Doing the one
Thing that will
Elevate the other
Life is an
Arcade game where
With each step
And every level
You learn one
More thing and
Those many things
Result in prizes
I guess today
I finally won
The best prize
Of your heart
Lucky lucky me
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 