Carry on like 
nothing ever happened 
the gap which 
I minded now
becomes a chasm
stretching wider and 
deeper once able 
to step across 
now impossible to 
shout over and 
into and nothing 
to be heard 
and now nothing 
to be said 
just know that 
wherever you are 
deep down below 
or far on
the other side 
I will see
you once again 

And like a rosary
so goes my mind 
from bead to bead 
each prayer gaining intensity 
the longer I wait 
first wondering then worrying 
now thinking then hoping 
and now finally praying 
running out of beads
this blessed rosary is 
and what to do 
when end is reached 
and still no salvation 

The rain came 
I haven’t heard 
he’s so small 
half my height 
thin and frightened 
he could be 
anywhere I think 
swept out to 
sea or buried 
under the mud 
nobody knows about 
me so nobody 
knows to call 
so I wait
I just sit
here and wait 
hoping to see 
or maybe hear 
his familiar hey

Just how and why 
and maybe even if
you of all people 
turned into a cloud 
I have no idea 
you used to be 
sun and sunny sometimes 
but lately if lately 
is even a thing 
when it’s about sky
something else rolled in 
at first I thought 
maybe it’s a shadow 
but no it lingered 
then I thought eclipse
but no it stayed 
that’s when you became 
a cloud not my
cloud but only yours 
move on along cloud 
because I am sun

Pianos are keys
not just to
themselves but to
me for they
unlock my thoughts 
and my heart 
they are sails
that I hoist 
and head into 
the direction of 
my imagination and 
they also are 
the keys to 
which I hum
myself merrily along