Friendship Is A Deep Love
           (for Heather)

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.
I shall be me and you shall be you.
together we're thick salsa,
spiced just right.

last night we danced on ice.
wore our hipster hats.
talked to the crows. ate chocolate.
we're pinned together,
affixed like wind and water.
my loud arms are your loud arms.
we embrace with great strength
and quiet care.
we say the stars are the masters.
they know more than we do.
some nights I talk to them.
whisper. ask for your healing.
for us the good life no longer shines.
but love does,
bright, imperishable.
we dance, laugh, joke, and cry.
reach with cashmere kisses.

what I do is for you.
what you do is for me.
we hold each other with gracious care.
with all that I am, I love you.
stay till the jewels in the night sky
invite us up to dance -
till the last light lays pillow soft
upon our cheeks -
and the flood lights of oblivion
take us into that elusive mystery -
cast forever
like ancient stars
across the sky.