I have known you for a time and season
and together watched the waning sun and neon moon
side by side,
pondering why some things don't go right
and when they do,
how is it we can find ourselves with the wrong one?
at the right time
it makes it almost not worth while,
damn!

I have always thought of you as you were to me
and that's my friend,
valued and treasured, forever ...

I had a clue
of course I knew,
your attraction was more than coats and ties
more than somewhat mildly electric,
but I never crossed that boundary stone
that sat upon her finger
and remained right there,
on that hand of the one who slept beside you
every night,
at least those nights you were at home
and not over here, with me...

and now that stone is six feet below
the green, green grass of somewhere quiet,
and I see you sad
I hear you tortured,
I feel you reaching out to me
full of passion and something more,
wanting now to touch
on the other side of friendship...

can we go there after all these years?
I'm not sure how this would work,
Of course, I love you!
you're my friend
but as a lover, now?
I have to think
and really spend some time
with these thoughts of mine,
as I knew you and your late wife ...

would I step in now?
not to take her place!
or is this something we've always known
was real,
but not yet time ...

our time

02/02/2007

Posted on 02/02/2007
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