i think you were mine
once in another time and place
you possessed me in ways that now
only exist in far reaching fantasies buried
by REM cycles and delicate dreams
i wish that the sense of you inside me
hadn’t been strong enough to linger
in my bones during this new life

now the universe is playing tricks
recreating me in this tiresome world
where deep seated desires are hard fought
but raging battles seldom won
while my new found celibacy is left
to lift up a quiet chorus of your name
so softly that i can almost hear it
and my hands want to sing along

i would belong to you
again if i thought the remnants
of your soul remembered me like this
i sigh instead and close my eyes believing
that even the patron saint of lost causes
couldn’t save us now

05/30/2006