Sunset; sky turning pink purple
Legs hammering like
pistons upon the path
Wisps of hair stinging like whips in the wind
Heart pounding; ears roaring; mind soaring
Sweat tracing serpiginous paths on hot skin
Face flushed enough to illuminate the night
Trees swishing in the breeze, whispering
Reaching out, fingers sweeping through leaves
Fluttering enticingly on the branches of the bowed boughs
Momentum
propelling; pushing past everything
Hush now and let me sing you the song of your heart
I'll sing and then we will sing together until
You can sing it alone and I can find another
You know what I keep wondering about
How most of us
understand that life is a transient thing
A flash of shimmering,
golden fish swimming rapidly with the stream
That ‘This too shall
pass’ applies to almost everything
That any glimmer of
permanence is a magician’s illusion
That we must eat
change for breakfast-lunch-dinner (whether we like it or not)
For when we are elated,
there’s a little part of us that knows it’ll be over too soon
For when we can’t stop
crying in the shower, we are telling ourselves the pain will end soon
For when we raged against someone enough to want to kill them, even that dissolved all too soon
Yet
We seem unable to see that
love (in any of its human forms) is no different
That ‘This too shall
pass’ applies to OHHHH EVERYTHING
Instead, we latch on
to ‘Forever’s and 'Forevermore's and ‘Ever-After’s
You see, I wish I knew
it then
That last time I
dropped you off at the airport… I wish I knew it then
Not because it was
the last time I saw you (it wasn't)
But because it was the
last time I couldn’t wait to see you again
