reality is a strong draft

I constantly step into the front of the line when an idea hits me

I’ve got this one!’ I shout…

sitting comfortably in the back seat belt fastened

smiling at the driver through the rear view mirror

holding John’s backward-stretched hand 

he sits passenger seat on this one

I am along for the ride

false selves usually die in exposure to great light it’s been said and

No one takes it from me because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me but I lay it down of my own accord, wrote another John, long, long ago….

embarking on a new date still enrobed in all we have been

I am bereft and left surprised by what our feet tell us

yet hand still holds out for the first once

again