Almost

Sometimes

Sometimes
I think of you
All the time
And I am reminded
That joy is within
Reach

It helps that
A million miles separate
Us
And that I cannot touch
You
To do that I must
Fly
And that I cannot see you
Except through pictures
You send
I talk to you on the phone
And think of the time
When you will be
Mine

I think of you
Sometimes
And I treasure
The distance
I measure the time
And longing is a stranger

Sometimes I think of
You
All the time
And I love the memory
That you are funny
A little cruel
A little stingy
Unkind
And would never mind
What the next chap
Thought of you

I think of you
All the time
You do not belong to me
But the world is mine
Sometimes.





Come

When the lights go
Down
You steal into my
Kingdom
Here where no one matters
But the other

When you make me
Come
To you
I like to open my eyes
I like to hold your hand
I like to keep you close
Listen to your cries

Because you cannot
Borrow my heart
I do this to make you see
What eloquence
Verbs, nouns and sentences
Cannot tell you

Because you cannot
Read my mind
It is my dearest hope
That you see my soul
Through my eyes

The soul that came alive
Where torture no longer
Rules
Whose demons are
Vanquished one by one
By one by one by one
Until the multitude of them
Are gone
Where courage planted a seed
Where the anesthesia has faded
Because you came
Along.