Portrait

your blue eyes
look straight at me
from the online photo

I could swear you
see me, now, in frozen time

eyes amused
loving me, now, in this moment
did you just shake your head?

when I sleep
I hear you singing

songs we sang together
songs I’d forgotten
but my heart still remembered

time transcended
I believe you’re here

fingers creating music
up and down the keyboard
soprano notes coaching my voice forward

eternity erases all lines
time, space, physicality

you are here
you are There
death cannot keep you from me.


pmr
10/6/09