Spindly fingers like piano keys

Long, strong and I see them

stretched tight across my

Ribs, counting

Quiet

but I know what songs

Your thoughts dance to deep

in the night.

And today

it finally rained.

my peace brought the sky

down

down, in pieces

from your strange heaven-

what a ride

Fireball of reckless

Joy

And I felt you here, with me

Roaring

on the wind

and emptiness.

In those moments

you feel so alone, so far

you don't know,

you don't know

how beautiful.

Today I was lost in

my own head again,

Driving slow

Enveloped

in the imaginary touch,

the hypothetical end result

When suddenly a little

gray bird fluttered

to a standstill

on my front driver's windshield.

He stayed there and

sat with me,

together we sat

in knowing,

knowing where

my thoughts had

led, once again

and

These days you are with me,

always.