With another life completed
I’m not ready for you
Maybe several more…
Apprenticed to a carver
Of cold marble, I
Won’t be ready
For you.
I may signal the
Other ships and
Secure a
safe landing
After a life
Learning and
Leaning and
Steady at sea
I am not ready for
You.
I wonder if study
Even with someone
Having
a compassionate mind
and
even if my dialogue
were silenced…
would
it
does not even
us up
and make me ready
for you.
With your gliding
Elegance, you can choose
To land where you
Wish
I float, cast off,
Film, sea-sawing
On stale air
to the
Cutting room floor.
You know me and
You were right
About paradise
What ever it
Is for you it
is the same
For me.

RLB 10-04-2023