- and what
will life be without you
it’s best to not know
cuz hope and
i have been
friends for so
long it’s a
spin on a spin
a wave of an ocean
and the old adage:
a ship in the harbor
is safe, but that is not what ships are
for.* and us what are we for - we are
yet to know, we barely reemerged
before you left again to a state
of being i barely recognize but now
and again, like this morning i feel
our presence, the distortion, our
desperation of what we once had
in the early morning, late afternoons
and evening before sleep. i continue
to spin like a top before my mind collapses
into you: keeps, like the wave you are to return
*2006, The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, Section: John A. Shedd, Page 705, Yale University Press, New Haven