POETRY: HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO ME

A millennium from now in the great darkness
terrible in its size and crushing weightlessness,
one last star, as dim as were my hopes before you,
hangs on fighting the inevitable
and, as it shivers in the absolute cold,
it twinkles in the numbing vastness.

So, from a distance one would think it magical
if there were any witnesses left to wish upon it.
 
Then... the next beginning of the end starts
with an analog fluidity and completes with a binary finality.  

Darkness  
Nothingness

The Universe... all we are has ceased to exist
and
finally
...I don?t love you anymore.


2


Some folks they get a flood of love
Some others live in drought
What causes these inequities?
How does this come about?
Some check off lovers
From long lists
Some wonder what
They've missed
Their lives a lonely labyrinth
Of happiness dismissed.

Some folks they get a flood of love
Some others live in drought
What makes the one "the in crowd"
While the other's crowded out?
Some helm the yacht "Companionship"
While some the boat have left
Some cry "Titanic" tears each night
As if they were bereft.

Some folks they get a flood of love
Some others live in drought
Some bask in smooth security
While some are thrashed by doubt
Some pause to pray
Most every day
That eyes that often rained,
Will someday know
A flood of love
To wash away the pain.




3


There are times... when I awaken and realize
what a tender part of my dreams you have been....
I know that my thoughts are only reflecting
the loving hopes of my heart..
because whenever they wander... they always take me to you!

Every once in a while I start feeling a little lost,
especially when I start wondering where we're going.
And every now and then... I need something from you
that I don't always get...
I'd like for us to
talk a little more...
touch a little more...

Just an occasional thing... that you're still happy with me.
I'm not asking for too much....
just enough to know, from time to time,
that I make a difference.  For just knowing that...
makes all the difference in the world to me.

I hope you'll think, just for a moment,
how much you mean to me!
And when you continue on with the things
you need to be doing in your life,
smile a smile for me and remember
that I'll be thinking of you still
And always....




4


Sweet are the words
           that have fallen from these lips
            but cherish more, now, you see,
            the thoughts I hold within me
        trusting... caring... sharing messages
             from my mind~~~~never slip
          for words that have such meaning
       can cause us to have different readings
         on what we feel........ what we say
               or to say what we feel
                but to know another
            knows these words are for real