And I sent
You a bear
To remind you
That we are
Together even when
We are not
Cuddles he’s called
Cuddles he gives
Category: Jay
LayWithMe
Lay with me
Let me paint
You with words
Let me strum
Your hair like
A harp let
Me tap your
Tummy like a
Tympani let my
Fingers dip in
Loves water colors
And draw circles
Across your brow
Down the cliffs
Of your cheekbones
And pool in
The hollows of
Your throat lay
With me and
Let me look
Into your eyes
And see stars
So far away
Yet close enough
To touch stay
Lay with me
Delay with me
Let this night
Last into the
Day with me
ThisIsBliss (for Jay)
Imagine just imagine
Candles surrounding bath
Twinkling twilight bouncing
Off snowy windows
DeBussy’s Nocturne aloft
Falling and splashing
Into ears like
Trout in ponds
Causing quiet ripples
Around your body
Popping bubble after
Delicious bubble like
The warm dreams
Of children and
Then just then
Your smile dimming
All the rest
This is bliss
Friends đź«‚
And as I
Took that one
Last fateful step
Wading farther out
Then ever before
The sandbar gave
Way to canyon
Pulling me under
With only the
Filtering shimmering sun
Showing me which
Direction was up
Like a whale
Cold darkness tried
To swallow me
But my legs
And arms flailed
In panic of
Dying rising me
Higher until at
Last I popped
Like a bobber
Above the water
When hope cast
As a rope
Was thrown by
Friends to me
And they and
Not me brought
Me back to
Them for yes
I had wandered
Foolishly beyond myself
But they knew
Where I belonged
LoveOfFriends (to my firemen)
It’s only ever
After not necessarily
Happily ever after
When I awaken
To something new
Around the old
Me like an
Ice storm coating
Everything in a
Brittle tender mask
Weighing me down
And snapping things
Like heart strings
Plucked from outside
Inside making thudding
Dead sounds like
That other shoe
That I’ve been
Waiting to drop
When friends rush
In like tiny
Firemen carrying buckets
Of water to
Not douse but
Free me from
My now icy
Self taking me
Back to someplace
Safe and warm
Sans the ice
Plucking then those
Same strings making
Them sing again
Now with laughter
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 