Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead

 

angelus

voices call

from home

as I float from memory to memory

a champagne cork hits the wall

sadness hangs

kiss midnight

suspended

home

and

love

the calendar bows

sleep drifts in

you come to me in dreams

you tell me it’s alright

rain falls clouds stretch

touch earth yet remain skyward

roads wind there are no names

for the places I’m going

today cannot erase

tomorrow cannot erase

or dim the I love you I say

to you I love you

in this dream

in this memory

rain falls I stretch

to touch kiss you kiss

the forehead

of this new year

I sing

a lullaby

for what has been

for what will be

 

 

Sarah Elizabeth Whitehead

January 1, 2005

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