Whatever truth
I’ve come to know –
the promise (holding still)
though times before
I cried without remorse

forsaken then
the best of love
as pieces reconsidered
I’ve taken all
(I’ll take it one more time)
hope which is eternal
spends a many night with me
and hardly ever
tears without the smile

a ladder back
with room to share –
someday Sunday morning
across a page
sometimes (I see you there)
without the words
(forgiven)
the answers fell apart
and who was there
to tell us when to stop

were not for chance
the lover’s dance
spilled beyond the music
sit with me as daylight falls –
on places we’ve become

no need to grieve –
for leaving won’t be long

always now
the echoes ring –
as lanterns
frame the doorway
I won’t make room for sorrow
in my bed

for all the times
of holding on –
comes now another sunrise
forever waits the door
to let us in