Rob Schackne #886 - Alive

Alive

If I’d said to Jim D
please play the piano for me
he might still be alive

(he’d jammed with the Grateful Dead
& I had just turned fourteen)

I thought today
who I should be asking to play
& what language could I use

a touch, a sound
a smile you might remember
we play it everyday

it is what it is of course
& tho' there are damn good reasons to
I cannot re-make the world

(how the world binds us
like to boulders with no tongue)