Waiting

Across the field

to dawn at sea

a corner in the midday sun
beneath the sky at night

alone within his heart

the warrior waits for death
the watchman waits for dawn

to this have I been called
to wait on God

a moment forever
in expectancy of surprise.

ANGUISH

A hoarse groan 

Echoes in the cave

That you have become

Death has been mining

Digging out the rich

Mineral of your life

Haunting your emptiness

Breaking our closeness

Apart

Not knowing what

Your eyes are trying

To say

Their pleading

And the fear

That you want me

To leave before it’s time

We no longer know

How to be

With each other

A tautness has entered

To replace the ease

Learned of lifelong

Intimacy

Parting is approaching

And we are not able

For it