Wish You Were Here
in the shadow
of a summer
off the Florida
keys
if only
i had known
what i know now
would i have
sailed away
and took a risk
seen the sea
for what it was
never knowing
what lurks beneath
blinded by the surface
of the sun
thought i knew
the stars
for they twinkled
same as the sea
same as they did
way away
from me
and every facet
was a flame
that drew me in
taking hold
a lover of light
on a moth’s wing
the cemetery is silent
in its season
a body i once knew
has left
no box can hold
there was a rainbow
on the way
home
and the colors blurred
and melted like a snow
cone
and a part of me is here
and a part of me is there
and in the end
we are every
where
TL