umbrella fella

im watching

like i have through the ages

 

i was searching

like I do

for you

 

forgotten knowing

secret from even self

but i knew

there was magic for me

out there

out here
you

 

I want to read once more

dictionaries

thesauruses

to give me the language

semantic advantage

 

were we Vikings?

Or in the Mongol court?

did I loose my head

for cheek of retort

 

I bet I didn't know my station then

nor now either

 

did I find you then?

I think I must

I think I held you for a while

then left, turned to dust

 

only for the spiral to continue

for souls to be so entwined

for love to be so true

that no amount of blue could keep me from you

 

my great grandma

told me once

I died so you could live

past the mountain I drove to you

and clear as day

she shared with me

1918 Spanish flue took me

and the life I had
so I could
give to you

 

the question I get asked

by the single life sighted

"what made you come here"

not my place of birth you see

many miles from where I used to be

adventure

serendipity

I say

as I didn't know myself

until now

 

you told me

it felt like home

all I can say is

yes

across the universe

my spirit has reached

to find

the out stretched hand

the right hand

the hand of promise

the familiar of form

let me be

like you are for me

an umbrella in the sun

or

storm