In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas