Years before I knew you
I was walking down Rue de Rivoli and I saw
those green and silver
snake print trainers
and I had to
have them
And years later, still
before I knew you, I had to let them go
because I went to
another place and drank in a bar called Freedom and my bag was
already filled with other things
And now I am thinking
of them
and thinking of you at
the same time
and thinking about what
time is and decisions of memory
and a continuum of
missing something or someone
different names and
forms
a mutable loss
which now I will to
change to presence
and this beautiful day
brought me here to understanding the astrologers' words
when they talk of
Chiron in Aries and how to take it IN, they say 'in' like that with
accentuation
and I see the power of
time and being that is living inside myself and I laugh that I was
mourning the sudden limitation to my newly stepped identity because
Yes
