Ode to Yesterday

I can't sleep. I'd like to touch on the subject of inspiration. I don't even know who the hell I'm talking to out there, but I like to imagine someone's listening. There are many sources of inspiration in the world- for example the ocean, a pretty sunset, a beautiful park. But have you ever been in love with someone that inspired you? I mean, someone that you thought of almost every second of every day. Someone that filled you with so much emotion that you had to put it on paper otherwise you'd burst? I don't know about you, the reader, but I find inspiration in beauty. But then you could say that there's so much beauty in things such as relationships, as opposed to physical beauty. A relationship that feels so natural it's almost like magic. Like there was no mistake that the universe caused your two paths to cross. When you think about the chances of it. When you think about how you met.

I've experienced it once or twice. It doesn't come around often, and we're lucky if it stays. Sometimes we take it for granted. Tonight, I'd like to post an ode to yesterday....
because I'm missing someone tonight, someone I haven't seen in a very long time, and the pain of missing him seems like yesterday.

Here's to inspiration.


The clouds have come and gone
The sun has risen and set a thousand times
The waves along the shore have not ceased to crash

Don't take you away from me
Don't take you away

I know we both have differences
And many more that don't hurt what we have

Don't forget about those.

I am at your mercy
And no one else's

No one else
Lures the love out of my heart
And into the one inside of me

Inside of me
You glide in me
You slide in me

And we collide in me
As if the moon and the sun met for the first time
And said to one another
I need you
To exist.

Oh, Love.

Let me be last on your list.
Let me be last
On your list.


-dmy 2000