I will give you the words
about the things I see and saw
in the light and the shadows
of our world

hidden in plain sight

sometimes
love is a bright light
a fairground
a Ferris wheel

two hearts colliding

for us love is better left
to find its own course
as it waits
patiently in the words

of a poem
on a page
in a book
that you will open

after we have said goodbye

[2023]