Relief
I wonder what kind
Of man I would have become
If we hadn’t met
I wonder what kind
Of man I would have become
If we hadn’t met
Draped on an elm bough
Branches dapple the sunlight
That warms up my cat
Annulled at midnight
This day destined to return
In four years from now
Rolling through the night
The rhythm of the train tracks
Rocking us to sleep
Memories of you
Follow closely, taunting me
With what might have been
The arc of her back
Revealed in alabaster
Carved by the moonlight
Winter shore winds blow
Swirling my daughter’s hair as
We search for sea glass
A lazy Sunday
You, dozing on the white couch
Lovely as ever
We walk the worn paths
Of an unexplored landscape
The first of many
The crook of my arm
Cradling ebony silk
Purring in my ear