Friendship Is A Deep Love

time,
its fleeting way bewilders.
a day will come
when you will not know my name
and my body will flounder.
till then we have each other,
and our upside down life,
our inner workings and your delicious
cheeseburgers.
we wear crazy hats,
sit with sandwiches and ice cream
and talk to dogs.
I shall be me and you shall be you.
together we're thick salsa,
spiced just right.

last night we danced on ice.
affirmed we like crows and chocolate.
your loud arms are my loud arms.
we're pinned together
like wind and water,
like a sigh and a kindred kiss.
we say the stars are wise. 
they see all.
but we cannot master the stars.
they know more than we do.
yet their music is soft, enduring.
it carries our flowers
and welcomes us home.
the good life is not gone
though it does not shine.
love does.
I dance with your beautiful soul
each day.

what I do is for you.
what you do is for me.
we hold each other with gracious care.
our journey will last till the cosmos
flips itself.
that is till the moon no longer
comes to rest in the night sky,
and the Earth abandons the Sun
for some nearby star.
till then stay right here.
stay till those sky night jewels
invite us up to dance
and enter that elusive mystery.