Electricity Bridge

 
The fire in my fingers  
waits to scream  
to overpower silence  
and pull me away  
from the space I keep for you  

Time stacked memories  
ebb and flow  
their ditchwater taints  
the purest mountain stream  

Out by electricity bridge  
soft and hard  
soft and hard  
our stars fused  
always and forever  
as the freight cars tumbled  
through the night  
and the lights of the Delta glowed  

But the child you never bore  
and the flute you never played  
outshone it all  
and if we let them  
weeds we planted in our hearts  
still grow  
tall