FREEDOM

What will I say to you today?
What can be said?

There is always a task
to bend to, always unfinished work
to be done. The days are growing shorter
and the summer is almost gone,
and with the early-coming night there is
a sense of urgency, a desperation to remove
this mask fastened to our face.

What will I say to you today?
What can be said?
Perhaps there will just be
a warm glance, and maybe then
it will feel like morning again.

(19 September 2006)