Still Learning.

I look at you and see

Calm

Comfort

Affirmation.

 

I called you this morning

4  AM your time

7 in mine

I heard you and felt

Trust

Peace

Gratitude, and then

Without restless questions

I found sleep again.

 

We are far away

But I am not afraid

I am not pained at the possibility

Of the unsaid name.

Instead

We know

I am with you.

 

Thankful

For the unpredictable storm

That has swallowed us.

Stretch my spirit

To this slow sound.

 

With you I am constant

I have shelter,

Without suffocation.

Hope without ache.

With you I am a balance of time.

 

Choices.

30ish people read this poem in its entirety.

then 

I read it again.

"none erased. none edited..."

but to make posters of them?

not fair to stoph.

not kind to them.

not necessary for me.

of course, none of that occurred to me in my selfish moment of composition. 

he's a nice boy.

this was my decision.