all day today I waited for you
for you to come see
for you to come close and say
but when you did come you didn’t see
you didn’t say
the sky was far too blue
the waters far too fine
for anything like that
from you to me
or me to you
so we sat awhile in those chairs you like
and smoked a pile of leaves
writing in the ashes
then it was time for you to go again
and time for me to wave goodbye
with head bowed down