Inexorably I had prepared for our bond
Risked everything I waited patiently
Years I dreamed my waking days away
For the dreams to come only while sleeping

Twenty years is only a marker in time
Five more a friendship is marked for death
Nearly two more than life had blessed you with
There was not enough in all the universe

How can such bright sunlight leave no shadows?
So blinded was eye that I could not see
Hidden in plain sight on a plane over my head
And you slipped behind the shadow he did not leave

Knowing twenty winters I endured cast away
Knowing my island charts were torn in a storm
Knowing I would not be home on Christmas day
Knowiing you would be, the traitors knife sunk in

01/01/2010

Posted on 03/08/2011
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