He is
in my
life to
test my
love for 
try he
has already 
done and 
win he 
already has 

Sometimes you want 
it simple a
scoop or two 
other times you 
want a cone
sometimes you might 
even want it 
with whipped cream 
but me I 
like it most
with a cherry 
plopped on top 
because to me 
a small simple 
single cherry makes 
almost everything else 
a sweet celebration 

All I see
are the mirrors 
bouncing back what
I imagine is
the sun all
of them denying 
the light like 
some startled starlet
surprised by attention 
and I the
one picked over 
standing here ten 
deep in the 
crowd wishing that 
she was me 

You don’t know 
that when you 
do you do 
this very thing 
much like the 
sun when curtains 
are thrown open 
at first striking 
and then bathing 
and warming washing 
away the night 
this is how 
when you do 
the very thing 
that you don’t 
even know that 
you’re doing you 
do and how 
you doing it
makes me feel 
just like that 

The further I go 
and the longer I 
walk down this path 
the less I recognize 
until I too realize 
that I’m a stranger 
to this my life 
and all the others 
too are just strangers 
to this mine as
well as to theirs 
and that just maybe 
this is what is
meant to be infinity