Sometimes like now
I feel like 
that pause between 
raindrops barely noticeable 
because everything else 
is thinking rain 
but the pause 
like a laugh 
or a sigh
is what makes 
a single raindrop 
into a raindrop 
and into rain 
and even sometimes 
an arching rainbow 

There are such things 
as life’s simple pleasures 
the simplest of all 
being silence peace serenity 
which are never broken 
but slowly and steadily 
and almost always certainly 
interrupted enhanced and ended
when you sigh the 
happiest of quiet sighs 
when in your dreams 
having you next to 
me I do hear 

I strip naked 
stand at waters
edge and gaze
not into water
for water can 
never be seen 
water only reflects
or it contains 
but water by
itself is nothing 
much like me
I do suppose 
without you without 
you I’m invisible 
just another thought 
no different than 
the breezy humidity 
that clings and 
dampens other things 
but with you 
I being water
become so much 
quench bathe mirror 

Most people leave 
those who’ve gone 
need to stay
where they’ve started 
not where they’d 
left for left
wasn’t going right 
leaving is easier 
for what’s left
will never be 
right things usually 
go south but 
what’s left will 
never go anywhere 

Static is gone 
replaced by hum 
and soon song
once I remember 
the lyrics this 
is how life
goes once you 
leave your job 
and start living 
be it night 
be it weekend 
and even vacation 
but the chorus 
really kicks in 
when you’ve said 
goodbye to work 
for the very 
last time and 
hello to life 
after job life 
when your leisure 
is your 9-5