I have searched and searched for someone... I’d buy roses just like my father bought my mother

At night I’d sit at my window and watch sidewalk strangers passing in the illumination of moon and streetlight

I wish you were like the shells I’ve collected through the years. I know they can’t wash away anymore

Sitting on silent drift the ocean beside me. Wrestling waters paint the shore as the brush

Riding to the water’s edge that da… Her and I on horses she’d ridden many times before.

So many lost among battlefields and blood spills Letters written and never sent.

We slept within the same sphere captured happily under morning’s dew. As children

The rain is like an old love song. It’s been with me many times before, to call me to sleep

Living without you On a love restricted diet Starving in the shadows Turning I saw your face on the wa…

You will not remember that day, that feeling of morning when we were held one to the other my laughter

Come with me and I will paddle us across the south side of heaven. I’ll spread out a handful of stars

At times I may speak too much of the sea. That is where my last lover came from,

Like winter trees that dance with the wind bare its leaves

This is my first poem to you. They’ll be many more as long as there are seasons to write them in.