A Love Affair With Time
When I wake you are already gone
pacing faster, moving
always moving
Won’t you stay with me?
When I wake you are already gone
pacing faster, moving
always moving
Won’t you stay with me?
I want you to love me
the way I love you through words.
Caressing each syllable, guiding
pen across softened edges of paper
As I lay between warm blankets now, my mouth leaving warm breath circles on the cool glass windowpane, I think about you. I wonder If your heart feels just as heavy as mine, as I watch my neighbor move methodically, shoveling line after line of freshly fallen snow.
I keep waiting for your text, like we wait for the time. Like we stand at the edge of the window pane as kids, our noses to the glass.