Epiphany

do not leave me,
my companion,my friend,
I need your fierce defiant
confident mask

a lifetime's journey shared
in  half our lifetimes,

sleepovers necessitated by
survival needs

ours

telephone pole
hands raw with smashed anger
laughters release

embarrassed by  enthusiastic
flattery of my being, all parts of
it, so sure you were

I need another
another story now,
please share one more,
one more phone call to say

guess who i met today
which church my new friend goes to
they're really nice and yes I came out
to them  too...

of course you did

your god loves them and you

and so do I love you
please do not
go, not yet, not
ever

please.


 January 6 2018