James Thomas Hazard
Soft Egyptian cotton
and the sound of your breathing
Under covers and the
old hours of night,
Talking as if in a
trance, peacefully dreaming
Our faces framed by a
pale patch of moonlight
I could stay right
here like this and never leave,
The recitation of
thoughts about the past
Are the ringing bell
tones of chimes and the prayers we believe
For time is always
the same and change is a mask
We don’t live in the
age of long ago
This is the lucid
dream, the knowledge of youth
And yet no force of
will can make it so
It comes by act of
grace arrayed as truth
Whatever happened, it
didn’t happen to us
That is why we’ll
always be together
As we like to say,
like dust to dust
In the lingering
feeling of love that lasts forever