Kit Kelen #610 - holding, held

610

holding, held

it’s time to hold you

there’s time to

when I’m past sleep

or it’s run out

light made wakeful

or the fuse gone down

when all birds sing to start

your bellows still

a beat of heart

some flower

tended in the day

is all the colours there

sleep’s all for kisses caught

and set to dream

it’s time has left us

this next day

we didn’t need to ask

before the mail, the news

to-do, no caveats, conditions

among the gods

this much to wonder –

how you could be here

you’ve still got your other world

I’m over the date line

and am I dreamt

to lie beside

all worldly, other

green with

?

see the sun through windows licking

while you’re still away

there’s time because I’m here

but I won’t tug – no war

here as between seasons

like the world my father gave

my mother gave

how I was held

once nothing when

I first began on days