Love's Recovery

During the time of which I speak

it was hard to turn the other cheek

To the blows of insecurity

Feeding the cancer of my intellect

the blood of the love soon neglected

Lay dying in the strength of its impurity

And all the friends I thought were so together

They've all gone and left each other in search of fairer weather

I sit here in this storm and drink a toast

To the slim chance of love's recovery

There I am in younger days

stargazing painting picture-perfect maps

Of how my life and love would be

Not counting the unmarked

paths of misdirection my compass, faith in love's

perfection

I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen

And all our friends

we thought were so together

Left each other one by one

on the road to fairer weather

And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast

To the slim chance of love's recovery

Rain-soaked and boys choked

Like silent screaming in a dream

I searched for an absolute distinction

Not content to bow and bend

To the winds of culture

that swoop like vultures

Eating us away...eating us away...

eating us away to our extinction

Oh how I wish I were a trinity

so that if I lost a part of me

I'd still have two of the same to live

But nobody gets a lifetime

rehearsal as specks of dust, we're universal

So let this love survive and

be the greatest gift that we could give

Tell all the friends who

think they're so together

That these are ghost and

mirages all these thoughts of fairer weather

Though it's storming now,

I feel safe within the arms of love's discovery