Lit the candles
Tonight
For the first time
Without you here
To tell me
Everything
Will be okay
Always had a habit of goin’ round my ass to get to my elbow when it came to women
Silence is the worst
Pain, a close second
The valley exploded in a flurry of furious sound, heat and light.
My worst
yet best
days
have been
just sitting here
thinking up pithy
things to
say
then
the dog
hops on the bed
and says
you are not
a ghost
yet
You’ll have to find out for yourself, but not today.
The third Thursday in June
a decade back and you
walked into the dive like
you owned the joint
Of all the ladies I’ve led
no one ever clung to
me as if I was the last
safe harbor in a storm
Ten years of broke hearts
trying to find purpose
amongst ruinous pasts
and we finally asked if
When we danced that
soul-shattering first blues
did we somehow sense
how destined we were