You 'n Me

YOU ‘n ME

When I was with you and you were with me

I was the mountain and you were the sea

And I was the mountain under the sea

Then I became you

And you became me

When I am the writer and you are the words

you’re poetry in motion

you dance like a bird to our song that’s inside

no-one else need’ve heard

Carpe diem

emancipation, and mirth

When parasites bit you

Torment would arise

And I’d find your tears welling up in my eyes

Then I became tears

and you became eyes

and then you became tears and I became

you…

potent you

You who inspire generations and sundry

You who commanded the focus of generals

and councils with the pacific ;

at her doorstep

whose lap was a children's castle

and fortress for a lamb

I see your image in

fluorescent prisms of baby raindrops

vague but for the precious thunder of your laugh,

Your moistness in the grumbling of time-space

Rolling down my spirit

We’d met on paths of truth

where there are no crooked sties

of right or wrong

Ours was a triumph of soul

a little world that flew in the face of the big world

Now I lean on the porch outside our house of cards

at the mercy of the four winds enveloped in chance

intuiting our private breath ,

entranced

and the short perfect life of memories