From Afar

The sun

will never shine the same again

I won't be fooled by a slant of light

Or blinded by the darkest night

With all I've learned

about truth & lies

and abrupt good byes

I doubt that love

will prove to be

more (or less)

than out of reach

And certainly no closer

than what I can imagine

But I've decided it's ok

I'm safe in love with love today

for contentment is

the grand illusion

Dust on the wind

stone-smoothed by time

you will always be

The One

who would not

disappoint me

And while I sleep

perchance to wake

The Dream

I love remembering

© 07/29/03

January Grey

The Dust of Good-bye

Settled like dust

under the bed

issues too painful to speak

mock decisions formed

from blue heartaches.

Talk to me

Find words misplaced long ago

sentences swallowed

for passion's hunger

to spare our bodies

from starvation

implied paragraphs

stuffed inside the holes

of our hearts

Read to me

from the pages of us

pillow talk, and tender times

bookmarked for sharing later

those chapters filled

with cancellations

delays

everything we planned

but never found time enough to do

love scribbled our history

with years of trying to make it work

impossible to erase

too late to edit

we have loved volumes

sadly blanketed

with the dust

of good-bye.

© 2003

January Grey