when we meet once more

let us both be kind

right from the start

especially to ourselves

let's not do any part

of mean again

but pick up from 

the tender here

so I will never have to lose

the words that meant 

the most to me 

and then spend my life

bargaining every breath

of every day for a single 

moment of return

where no one's making deals

in an all or nothing world

when all I have 

is all my heart to offer up

to nothing left to give

and nothing can be

redeemed

that was lost in wager

to mistrust

before there was any 

trust to lose

let me remember to embrace

your memory

with the full weight 

of all this love

and not to fear the gravity

when gravity resisted

pulls the spirit twice as hard

into an empty well of words

consumed like drinking 

the mirage to running dry 

that hid the truth 

it was oasis all along

but does not fill again