Place and People Love
07/09/2004 01:35 p.m.
this place
queen of
cherished landscapes
to my soul
gift of a long hegira
and host of eternal return
meditative elysium
where I find God closest
rugged beauty
constant
no matter what
in my life isn't

would this setting still prove magical
for me without
the people
I have loved?
Will love, still love?

be loved by, to some or all degree?

People I have been walking
years or days with, here and there,
new characters of my story, I will hope to
to learn to walk with,
sans this beloved landscape
are they enough?

And what significance could
her charms hold for me
without their voices, touches, scents?
their eyes looking outward with mine
upon her miracles?

A wasted breathtaking scene, unshared?

Might I walk strong
savour and drink of all
these components of my life
if restricted to only the one
without the other?

Could there still be
the beauty and hope, excitement and peace
of place, discovered and rediscovered?
Or haunted by the times it was theirs too,with me?

Might I continue to strive for
rapport and common dreams
with people
and pure, simple love
without the sanctity and homeground

or pioneer treading of
my places?
I am currently Calm
I am listening to cars passing by below