And like a
Child awakening to
An overnight snowfall
The sight of
You makes me
Swoon with adventure
Sleds and snowballs
Mittens and cocoa
Of crackling fires
And smooth whiskey
While I watch
The fire’s fingers
Dance across cheekbones
And light up
The twinkling galaxies
In your eyes
You are my
Own late-night snowfall
Let us play
With gleeful abandon
Never give kindness
In the hope
Of its return
Give kindness simply
Because it’s the
Easiest and grandest
Thing that each
Of us can
Ever ever give
I don’t say
Things I think
I’m cautious like
A new driver
At a stop
Sign looking each
Way thrice before
Proceeding or like
A birder careful
Not to snap
A twig scaring
Away the thing
I wish to
See I keep
Things from your
Ears for even
Though I think
Them I fear
Your heart simply
Cannot hear them
Instead let me
Spy upon your
Smile and simply
Smile back love
I awoke to
The memory of
Us two men
As children playing
In sandboxes and
Seesaws on swings
And slides in
Tents enjoying finger
Puppet adventures in
Front of flickering
Candles and eventually
Sleep at last
Dreaming of the
Days adventures and
Joy one day
My friend upon
Your return we
Will soar like
Eagles on high
Thermals gliding wing
To wing towards
The heavens us
I see life
In As’s and
Like’s the world
Pops for me
In technicolor in
Images like a
Map laid before
Me with savanna
And forest everywhere
What I spy
Is lush like
Handfuls of gemstones
Each one holds
It’s own secret
Like your whispers
Late at night
You next to
Me are my
Metaphor unlocking each
And every other
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 