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My Gods
My gods once lived in california
When the nights were cold
but the day was warmer
My god was love and loss and truth
A boy i met who looked like you
Everything seemed so big back then,
the stars, the moon, the sky
But in between them all sat two,
small and nothing, you and i
Revisiting this again, I find
Revisiting this again, I find it even more impressive. We do not have nearly enough poems from you; and I await upcoming posting with great anticipation.
Starward
I really love this poem. And
I really love this poem. And the poem demonstrates that the two, who may have seemed small and nothing, were actually significant enough to be included in a poem with this degree of greatness---much more than small and nothing. This is one of the finest short poems I have read here in a long time.
Starward
Amazing. Delivered with
Amazing. Delivered with self-evident clarity and power, this is an example of how a cyclone of emotion can arise from a soft breeze of language. I connected, deeply, to every flawless line. So moving.