I forgot your name
I waited for you
to walk with me
towards heaven.
A long way,
longer ago
than being born.
Three tones
repeated themselves:
NEAR FAR NEVER
struck together
they sounded an agony.
Storms began in the mind
spread to the flesh
hurricaning with wrath.
I waited for you
bore with my unblessing.
I wanted to go at once,
start on the morning
of beginning,
but I had lost all sense
of direction.
My hair grizzled,
my joints stiffened,
my legs lamed.
Which way to heaven?
And where was love,
NEAR FAR NEVER
I forgot your name.