And like echo
Called to canyon
Your hello came
Back a whisper
Surprised like curious
Pups I turned
Head cocked sideways
Standing and wondering
What you looked
Like if you
Were like me
Walking to the
Floor a clear
Pool lay and
In there I
Finally saw you
Looking at me
My own reflection
Rippling as frogs
Leapt from rocks
Into the water
I was hoping
For someone else
I know now
I’m my friend
You sit in
Front of me
My own one
Cup of coffee
Anticipated and steamy
Intoxicating and awakening
I warm my
Hands around you
I sip you
Slowly savoring you
Your robustness and
Slight bitterness as
You cascade down
My throat and
Into my heart
You my love
Warm me each
Morning from the
Inside out making
Me smile then
Awakened and sweating
Unable to shake
The demon ravens
From my minds
Canopy they roost
Hiding in dreams
Which linger like
The bitter taste
Of some pill
I am reminded
That my dreams
Can break through
My slumber like
Thieves’s flashlights searching
For my sanity
Finding they crush
Rip and steal
Leaving me empty
Hollow and weeping
Until I turn
And remember you
My one reality
Bringing me back
To my world
Once again safe
Unable to sleep
Watching you breathe
Slowing my heart
To beat yours
Peace at last
Comes to me
My one anchor
Amidst stormy seas
Mooring me you
In safe harbor
My dreams haunted
Me with cruelty
Of people pursuing
And of torture
Me a loving
Man I wonder
What dreams mean
Unable to sleep
Wallowing in meanness
And abject inhumanity
I pray to
My Heavenly Father
To hear the
Sweet angelic lullabies
And like dishes
And cups and
Plates we threw
What we were
At each other
Breaking and splintering
Everything to shards
Amidst the heap
We knew then
That the Humpty
Dumpty of us
Lay at feet
Months then passed
We moved on
And now like
A boomerang that
We tossed we
Return better for
The flight than
The crashing landing
Of the dishes
That we were
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 