Brown-Skinned Boy...

Hold me by the hand – lead

me to that place where happy endings

never end...only give me things

I can depend on;

red wine – old times,

good friends...a CD playing...

a song, sung by an olive-skinned boy;

Something Inside, So Strong,

on repeat.

And when you’re gone

I’ll watch a dragonfly settle

on a leaf;

bronze on bronze –

the scent of you lingering

on my cheek –

and alone I shall be in that sea

of desire, but only as a boat,

long ago, abandoned  

is lonely...rising and falling

with the whim of the tide

and yet, not ever

knowing it.