Because

Times change,
As rivers roll
And leaves rustle in the wind,
Minds fracture and bodies age,
But we keep our wax as fat candles hollow down.

The sun smiles in summer,
Yet the cold wind freezes in winter,
Amidst hollow ways
Where frost clings and
Dark shadows whisper.

Often as the days pass,
I reflect upon and delve headlong
Into thoughts of you,
And how we have become and grown,
And our leaves reach to the shifting sun.

Friends as friends as friends,
We, our gulf is narrow,
And your eyes always seem to call,
With a fantastic dream in tow,
Where all is revealed and we are one.

Then morning shudders into perspective,
A grand reclining moment,
We wave to the passing ripples,
As our History floats down stream
In melancholy thinkulations.

Childhood is passed,
Depending has come to an end,
We are the grown ups,
We are the now,
The photos children look upon and wonder…

I don’t know where I am going,
But I throw thanks at you,
Thanking you for you being you,
And being kind to me,
And that moment when I took too many pills,
When you cried and my heart finally realised
And broke in happy craziness.

That is why I thank and love you,
Because you cried…
Because I cried,
Who knows, who cares apart from us?
Two souls entwined a world apart.

Times change,
As rivers roll
And leaves rustle in the wind,
Minds fracture and bodies age,
But we keep our wax as fat candles hollow down.



(For S. M. C.  22nd Feb. 2016)