When I tell you 
that I love you 
what I’m really saying 
is that I have 
always loved you and 
that I will forever 
love you and that 
this love is just 
one moment in an
eternity of my love 
that I had have 
and will for you 

What I have 
decided is to
give my body
to myself my
heart to my
friends and my 
mind to the 
world but my 
soul will remain 
with the Universe 

It is I
it not only 
is its time 
but place too
not by chance 
but by right 
and by reason 
for having given 
a lifetime to 
others it’s only 
fair that what 
I now have 
left should be 
mine and I 
and also ours 
for I am 
so many glorious 
things to me 

After a long life
I have finally realized 
that it is I
who makes me happy 
happier and happily happiest 
and that the others 
whilst fun and entertaining 
could never take root 
leaving me with only 
one season whereas I 
bear fruit on command 
not because I must 
but because I do 
I will always do 

When you returned 
so did noise 
and noise now 
is often irritating 
whereas before it
was exciting I
have discovered that 
silence is the 
lagoon where peace 
and serenity swim 
it is absence 
from the sound 
of gears grinding 
I have once 
again switched off 
the machine and 
found my way
back through the 
pass of aloneness 
shedding distractions clothes 
swimming naked in 
a pond called 
me myself I