The Gift
No idea, brother
that a gift could be so appropriate
a bookmark, two shells cracked and empty
and "Breaking the Shell".
Had I but known, could I retract
- as if somehow taking it back
could make it somehow not true?
But all eggs, once conceived,
given warmth, will hatch -
never thought the next'd be you.
I'd hoped for time
the poem I'd promised but couldn't yet find
only remembered, the opening line
"I heard that Haifa was lovely - " and you were!
so brave, trembling, tracing stars
Capricorn opened Saturn's Rite
Who knew that when you left the stage
You'd forget to turn out the light?
May there be granted the accomplishment of your True Will. ABRAHADABRA, Bro.
AUMGN
that a gift could be so appropriate
a bookmark, two shells cracked and empty
and "Breaking the Shell".
Had I but known, could I retract
- as if somehow taking it back
could make it somehow not true?
But all eggs, once conceived,
given warmth, will hatch -
never thought the next'd be you.
I'd hoped for time
the poem I'd promised but couldn't yet find
only remembered, the opening line
"I heard that Haifa was lovely - " and you were!
so brave, trembling, tracing stars
Capricorn opened Saturn's Rite
Who knew that when you left the stage
You'd forget to turn out the light?
May there be granted the accomplishment of your True Will. ABRAHADABRA, Bro.
AUMGN