"God is gracious," my friend

it is right to hold such a hand in such a time
in such darkness, the touch enough to
remind that life does create life that life

if allowed will study, it was right to
want to bury self in the hair of a woman
who could if time and space allowed

the certain freedom of acceptance
it was right for the moment, to accept
such imaginary strength, as the shadows

grew, as the bus continued down yet
another path, in another city, where poems
are built in the thinness of a twelve year

old's tear 

may such trips be limited: and such poems be sparse in our next life, dear friend