Hours, days, years ------------------ I cannot give up just yet nor let the hours of ours forget New days and kindest ways another morning's haze. Another bright blue spring a cheerful phone to ring. Unexpected flowers before a visit. Love, enough to miss it. I cannot give up just yet nor let the days of ours forget of every new teaching, a new thought enough to find yours forgot. The fall of summer into autumn. A smile from top to bottom. Bliss, to those that wish it, and love, enough to miss it. I cannot give up just yet nor let our years forget of every new chance - race, a new antique to place. Winter joy with mountains of snow, Trust that you know. A gift fair enough to kiss it, and my love, close enough to never miss it. 3/14/95 ------- A Valentine's gift won perfectly for you And heart lifted heavenward is to ensue Another years music of your eyes and voice And whatever devout lovers give choice. I ascribe the very nature of your words And write new meaning as do the birds To the sky or the stars yet as high as I present myself to rely. For fascination is to impassion the hour - the minute - dressed in any fashion, And the hour is you. Color it with both hands for it is new As are the meanings I pursue. This lifelong day I proclaim, yours, and name St. Valentine's Day the same. Butterfly --------- Fragile, the length of one's life; the shape of one's wing. Air, the provider, the extension of one's being, and the taker of the day. Brought to polish rapid earth a color or two For the sake of you. (of those that can read) Break, from your silky mass as a reminder of abandoned past Aloft in syncronicity. Unknown and succinctly a giver to guests of our kind; fields signed By a twelve thousandth of every season cared. But the end is tomorrow to those bought by sorrow, and the next is the field large enough to build an unadorned cocoon, A break from the beautiful life. Rosemary -------- May I only dwell in the time between that in which you are awake and dreaming, so sometimes I maybe remembered. Tuck me away and sleep deeming that I am eternal, night, thine, so choose not a soul intertwine or love daily, healing more a soul than kind. I, being no more of a want or thought, have gone and loved away. Your eyes being open (and I closed) will nightly shut as though fulfilled, but the day has dozed. Give me as I might hope and fear a nightly illusion to appear only at the languor of your mind while I drift in and out with love or without. For I ----- Oh, won't you forget my stature For I have loved threefold Search for me and hold me For I could love again Bury your eyes around me For I should be looked to from the inside My soul is empty in a lonely world For I have no one to believe with It is easy to reach into my heart For I broke it many years ago Sing to me your worries For I will sing along For you are not alone