THE MAN |
I watch -- careful you don't see me. Training my perifpheral vision. Every move -- recorded for eternity. If I could only link my brain to a VCR. The laugh -- contagious like laughing gas in the wind. I breath deep hoping to be infected. A smile -- which makes every star in the midnight sky go nova. For you are the sun of my galaxy. Eyes -- dancing like brown fireflies over a clear lake. I want to put them in a jar and set them by my bed at night. Two hands -- Gentle and graceful as a Tai Chi instructor. They hold my heart and don't even know it. The man -- stands before me naked and fully clothed. I like what I see and yet I strain to see more ... |
J.B.D. 12/30/96