YOU  (for D. H.)  (6-23-03, while eating at 'The SPOT', along the seawall on Galveston Island Texas)

 
   
while sitting in  
a burger joint    
looking out at    
this gulf of mexico s  
sunny  blue green    
horizon line    
while munching on    
a veggie burger    
writing down    
sweet words of heart    
as they gently arise  
here now  
upon these little cards    
for you    
i briefly pause    
to take a sip of soda    
as a classic  old      
connie francis hit tune    
comes on    
the restaurant s radio    
i suddenly notice    
in the stillness    
of this relatively surreal    
passing moment    
while simultaneously    
gazing out    
at shoreline breaking    
waves    
with my mouth still full    
of sandwich    
between jotting down    
these mindfully sensed    
carefully filtered    
chosen words    
as they arise    
and appear to me here    
i unexpectedly    
suddenly recall    
my lifelong  passionate lust  
for surfing and waves  
which i instantly savor    
and almost always get    
peripherally swept off  
up and away in  
whenever it s prolonged    
sweet daydream appears  
or comes  
to kidnap  
and steal me away  
until i just as suddenly    
discovered    
and clearly realized    
just now    
that i can t seem  
to get my mind    
and my thoughts    
nor my previous lifelong    
raw  passionate lust  
for sun  for surf  
for riding waves  
not even for life itself  
to readjust and return again    
more fully back in tact  
simply because  
ever since we first met  
got together  
and made such sweet  
wild  hot love  
all day and all night long  
for two whole days  
and nights in a row  
i just can t quite seem  
to get my mind  
my thoughts  
most heated desire s  
raw passionate lust    
off of you  
even here now  
in your present  
long distanced  
absentia  
where you still yet  
live  
and so deeply  
reside  
in the expansive  
heights and depths  
of my seemingly  
insatiable mind
and malnourished
heart
where now i can t  
get you  
out of my head
my mind  my thoughts  
nor from my
heated  
innermost burning desires  
for very long  
at all    
for clearly it s you  
yes you
only you alone now  
who has so  
suddenly  
come into  
my life  
to somehow  
displace  
and sufficiently  
replace  
to both fill  
and for now  
at least  
it seems
and appears
to me here
you may have  
what it takes  
to so equitably  
both fully fill
and satisfyingly
fulfill  
them  
all