The Old Mill

Down under the tracks
Inside my childhood haunt
You walked into my world that day
So unsuspecting
So lovely
You broke over me
Just standing there
Like in a mist rising over my Brigadoon
My needs overcame my resistance
I was suddenly standing there
Blurred, almost blind
Asking empty questions
Saying whatever I had to say
Just to hear your voice and
Get as near as your eyes would allow me
Not knowing you might not let me in
Not knowing that later we would seek each other out
Not knowing how much we might mutually
Want this more than anything else
And share the common mystery we share
And freely give the keys up
To risk new love and happiness
And just be with each other hal

28 August 08

Youlike the flowers
opening
SLowly there on your taBLEEXPOsing new bright hues inside outnew life and new love like delicate secrets stretching fingers wanting to touch lips
oh How I
long to share your SeCRets with mine
petal to pistil gently gROwIng up slowly
and deeper than I've ever been
aging slowly together
as we blow
in the
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You

like

the flowers
opening
SLowly there on your taBLE

EXPOsing new bright hues inside out

new life and new love like delicate secrets

stretching fingers wanting to touch lips
oh How I
long to share your SeCRets with mine
petal to pistil gently gROwIng up slowly
and deeper than I've ever been
aging slowly together
as we blow
in the
wind
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happy birthday

marla

love hal

Happy Birthday

My heart aches for you always but especially on this first birthday since we met. I feel so close to you already and yet I won't get to see you today. I try to say things, write things to you about how I feel, but my first choice is always to be there near you. I want to show you how I feel.

This is just a note to say how much I adore you and how I want to find a way into your life. Thank you for reaching out or we would have never been able to do this. It's rare, like the birth of one's child, yet it happens to people everyday, everywhere.