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.
we are kindred souls.
together we make thick salsa,
spiced just right.

last night we danced on ice.
wore our hipster hats.
talked to the crows.
ate chocolate cake.
we're pinned together,
like wind and water.
imperfect as we may be,
we're wrapped in a perfect love.
my loud arms are your loud arms.
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.
our lips are beautiful flowers.
even our cries are sweet.

what I do is for you.
what you do is for me.
we hold each other with gracious care.
dance with me till the jewels in the night sky
invite us up.
till our vast breaths are set to music.
till the last light lays pillow soft upon us
and we enter the flood lights of oblivion,
that elusive mystery,
cast forever.
wed forever.