Family

Crisp white snow weighs branches

As I smoke and sip wine in the lamp lit hotel parking lot.

I came here to love.

Waiting for night to pass.

Tomorrow I will drive through winter barren wine country to hold you along the banks of my heart for a few brief hours.

I came to breathe in love.

My sister at the wheel, we roll across gravel to your warm embrace.

Souls and bodies fed.

Time passes quickly

And we are on the road again.

I came to be loved.

And now across the gully

To your wooded home,

I see you as never before, yet as you have always been

A sparkling gift wrapped in time's passage.

I do not want to say goodbye.

I want to love.