Thursday, July 22, 2010

True Companion

The measure of each wrinkle, each gray hair, each fear-filled argument (the ones that forget about the promise), spanning the years.  The hours spent on remembering, recalling the conversations; the laughs; the tears (from it or whatever); the strength to find it in every day.

Loneliness in this candle light, a glass of Chardonnay and messages from new friends;
climbing that mountain, seeing that mountain, being on that mountain,
and wandering,
wondering in the midst of the turmoil of reality, canvassed grasses pecking at the ankles, mosquitos slapping; a veil lifted, a mouth kissed.

A true companion.

What it is to be in love!
That spark!

The shadows... the shadows of the past, needing a full ray of light.  To shine.  In order to shine.

Finding you, that will be the day.

A true companion.

With killer graces and secret places...

... and gray hair, laugh lines, memories of all of it - the willingness to know all of it - a reading, a writing, a word, a song.  Within it all.

A true companion.

Time.  Not on our side.

Why didn't I?  Why didn't I?

Maybe you did.  With killer graces and secret places and gray and wrinkles and laugh lines and a past...

A true companion.

Why not?

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