Sometimes It Takes Decades
to Say Love
I sat beside you
No tears
No emotion
No words saying love
We knew the two of us
together
the function of the tubes--
the air--
the fluid--
the release--
from the beginning you told about
those decades ago
as we sat in front of Lucky's
in the green Chevrolet with
No tears
No emotion
No words saying love
I lifted the plastic spoon
of shaved ice--
the futility--
the reality--
the release--
we knew must quickly come
in the sterility, an action
so difficult my hand shook
barely able to maintain
No tears
No emotion
No words saying love. |
