Thursday Poem: Just Together

Just Together

While waiting for the touch of a fingertip
to set in motion all this turning world.
While waiting for that single breath to breathe
new life into all this, we stand and look
for what’s about to happen here and now.

We stand both knowing that we lost our way
and took the twisting path to find this place.
We wasted so much of our short lives to search
for what does not need to be found again.

And if we knew then, what we know these days
we would not have lost sight of one another
so long as we both searched those far horizons
and watched distances and the skies always

while seeking something that would come to take
us far away from all of this, but now
we’re, still together, standing still in spite
of and because of all that time we lost

apart together, when we could have been
here just together waiting for the clouds
to part, the sun to rise up to begin
a new day freshly created just for us.