Next To You

How do you ask Tree

To forget Sun’s warm rays?

How do you ask Sea

To stop kissing Shore’s sweet face?

How do you tell Stone

To not know of Soil’s soft hand?

How do you ask God to 

Forget a fallen lamb?

How do you ask Breeze 

To avoid Flower’s scent?

How do you ask Canyon

To forget of River’s bent?

How do you ask Night 

To not love Deepest Sleep?

How do you ask one grieving

To forget their breath breathed deep?

How do you stand on these broad hills 

And ask me not to sing?

How could we walk away from this 

And cut Fate’s deep red string?

How do you ask One Searching

To not climb Mountain’s Steep?

How do you ask me to sow

But gather not nor reap?

I do not know these answers 

Nor God or any do,

But the one thing known in all of this,

I don’t want, if not with you

No want to be without your soft air 

No want to see without your longing stare 

No want to know if with you I cannot share

No want to grow without you there

I don’t want to eat without knowing your taste

I don’t want to forgive without your taught grace 

I don’t know how or when or why

Nor do I know if the Trying’s worth the try

I met you in the summer heat and have seen your deep July 

I held you close in angry winters, cold and dead and dry

I don’t know what makes up time, 

But this I know to be true

I don’t want mine to pass if its not next to you