You are here
And I am there
And we two meet
In some odd place
In-between
We share our verses
Tender litanies
Lovers lockets
Dangled from a silver thread
I give you all the diamonds of a half-remembered dream
You give me flowers
Still fragrant from a meadow turned to dust
And kiss the incorporal air
With an a**urance borne of time
Your face is like the mermaid
Half-myth, half-truth
Till suddenly you are gone
Disappearing in the ocean
‘Neath the waves
That wash the sand
And I once more
Stand alone
And aloof
And listen.