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.
affirmed we love crows and chocolate.
we're pinned together
like wind and water.
your loud arms are my loud arms.
we say the stars are the masters.
they know more than we do.
they intoxicate us with love,
with ardent kisses.
carry our flowers.
welcome us home.
are the kingdom of our dreams.
some nights I talk to them.
give out a concrete cry.
ask for your healing.
then listen in the hush air.
for us the good life no longer shines.
love does. it graces all.
empathetic, sturdy, imperishable.
your beautiful soul lies flush with mine.

what I do is for you.
what you do is for me.
we hold each other with gracious care.
someday our dreams will burn, bleed,
fall silent.
you will not know my name.
stay with me.
stay till those sky's night jewels
invite us up to dance.
till the last sunset streaks pillow soft.
till we sing as one
and fall into our own flood lights of oblivion
as we enter that elusive mystery.