Seasons take a special course
It's like a four step dance
that never ends
No one misses a beat
Just happy timely
dancing feet
Spun by the wind
But you
You go from hot to cold
To hot to cold
Summer to winter
Then summer to winter
Always missing beats
Always missing steps
With no wind to love you slowly
to where you should be
Even the light's amiss
to love
regardless
I thought we could agree
on this
But there is an unspoken whiff
a sky of darkness
to it all
And I do not like the dark
There is a room that I encircle
But I scarcely ever look in,walk in
think in
There is a bicycle on the outside
And a lot of books on the bed
There is a voice that guides
So that I'll keep a straight head
And sometimes I wonder
when the flan in the rice cooker
will cool
And I still smile
Because wearing red
Makes you lose your cool
It's date bait
You are so worth the smile
You were so worth the wait
All these years and you still
Can't play
the guitar or accordion
well
And only the dust
on my keyboards can tell
That we have a lot in common
Your anger went from 1 to 1000
Then right back to 1 again
To meet my thousand
And that fear never moved us
It's the way you towed me
on that bicycle
The way you never disappointed me
Maybe even the way you tasted my hair
The way you reminded me of me
The way I pretended you didn't
The way you knew I was pretending
The way I feared your accuracy
And Russia declared war on Ukraine
And you are caught in the middle
And I wonder if I will ever see you again
i even dreamt you my dear friend
For the first time ever
on a cruise ship in Tobago
Yes,I do worry
Because there are only two reasons
I think you'll go silent on me
And we have worked through the first reason
When you got married
And in this season
I am caught in the middle
Of the person you know
And the person you feared
And the person you would definitely hate
And I don't want to waste my thoughts
On anything that's loveless or cold
It is a good thing your room is still vacant
As a safe space
Because I know love lives there
When the light shines
Sure steps of advancement
Are made
to shadow
A balancing act
On a fulcrum
Of constant companionship
When the light shines
Around the story table
Granny's salt and pepper
Strands
in cornrowed hallows
On wall screens of signs
And hand signals
oNly visible
When the light shines
When the light Shines
Candles melt
To crik cracks
As cousin Gertrude
Exacts
just the right
amount of wise cracks
And Catherine
Who
Took her dignity back
'With George's two front teeth
In one slap
When the light Shines
A full house
Of laughter
and encores
To keep Mr. Scipio
awake
And running footsteps
As the the floor boards quake
To folktales
And Mermaids
And songs
When the light shines
And if the grid does not
provide
The night
With sufficient light
The children will perform
their rights
At the flicker of
the candle light
Until the day is in sight
House of Joy...
I stuck out my foot and tripped them
Because Sweetie,
I was rooting for you to win
Then I found reasons to disqualify them
their own imperfections
within
Nothing they offer was ever be good enough
Or ever ever will be
Neither anything they say or do
Because Sweetie,I choose you
So your flaws may be like the gran Canyon
Yet they seem quite explorable
And their motes,almost invisible
Albeit there so damn despicable
Their speech in pleasantries and compliments
Just annoy every nerve in me
And for your silence,in this race of verbatim
Sweetie,I'll give a trophy
