Deja Vu and Happiness

So Tonight

your eyes quiver in a nervous pulse

trying to close into the void

where you

have been left alone for so long.

Neither sounds nor imagining

or even

the memory of a dream would come

and sadness

never seemed resolved.

Deja vu

or a trapeze contraption

would net your body

floating you into my poetry

unbridled

and freer than the zone of love.

Watching me swing

each pass

begins to put you to sleep

as if

you were counting sheep.

Sadness

will not fill your pillow tonight

for the echoes of your heart

are walking through

a clear and undisturbed day

laughing

in the joy of words

for the first time

in a long time you are smiling.

There is no time for tears

that once

ran against

the midnight serenity

confusing you

and the meaning

why life

had been so cruel

taking your happiness and smile away.

But- tonight you are happy

and even

if it disappears as fast as it came

the illusion will last forever.

Deja vu

brings me

to the door of paradise on earth

and upon your body love lays

twilighting your heartache

into a

passionate cry no longer homeless.

If the haunting manifests, know

that all over this World

there are

people that will love you dearly.

Hold you

for the love of a man has been so long.

Here- I hold you, and

here the soft cascade of my voice

will nurture you.

Here- you will feel loved again

Here-

in the fragility

of your heart the words will dwell.