I saw you once.
Slipped by thought’s crumbling barricade
Unsuspecting Garrison distracted
And everything was different
And everything was just as it always had been.
I was you once.
Breath crystal fresh
Diamond sparks from granite
And I was gone
And I knew I had never been here.
Once, once you teased
As tired fruitless years
Threatened permanent erosion of hope
Then all was silence
And silence revealed simple, marvelous everything.
Time illusory
At once that and this inseparable
All completely as it should be, must be.
The universe conspired to align for this moment.
And this moment. And this. This.
You cursed me once
As garrison returned with tiny needles
Pinpricks of ‘have’
Bruises of ‘keep’
Hope, doubt, worry
I cried for you once.
Demons disguised
Beliefs, lies
Riptide, grasping
Slipping, reaching, reaching…
I lost you once.
Cloud mind.
Don’t leave me.
A tear.
Despair.
I.
I saw you once.