Look At Me

And
If you just looked at me,
Really looked at me,
Your eyes would meet mine,
I would see me in you,
Would feel you in me,
The oceans would still,
The moon would turn its face,
To give us the moment;
And
If you smiled at me,
A half smile with no teeth,
Just a turn of a corner,
Of your lips, dry and soft,
And
When that reached your eyes,
The oceans would move,
The moon would shake,
The night itself would smile,
And
I would smile back;
And
The rest would not matter.

Snore

Do you love me?
He says yes.
I ask how much?
He says guess.

He turns and sleeps.
The soft snore
Makes me think,
Like times before.

I know this love.
It is good,
Faces down storms
As love should.

But that soft snore
Makes me look
To love I know
In a book.

Those pages are old;
But romance
Still makes words there
Slowly dance.

I dream each night,
In the dark,
The snore destroys
That book mark.

Revelation

The wonder doesn’t last,
The smiles fade away,
The hope from the past
Burns up today.

You held him too close,
There is no chance now,
To vainly suppose
He will keep his vow.

The shades burst too soon,
The night comes to wail,
Darkness takes the moon,
Silence takes the tale.