For Ed, Laurel, Jeff, Nicole, Kevin, and Diana

I don’t know why
I don’t know how,
Darkness.

I don't know why
I don't know how,
cold...so cold.

I don't know why
I don't know how
darkness and coldness
Like a veil
Like a curtain
Like an enfolding fence
of bitterness in the face of love.
A descending of pain
in the face of joy.
Like an abortion of friendship.

I was so rich with you
So rich in a womb of wealth
Wealth of love
And acceptance
And hope
For friends
And friends.
You were, somehow, my strength.
Friendship is the truest strength.

Breakfast with Jeff and Nicole
Drinks with Ed and Laurel
Football at Kevin’s
And dropping in on Diana downstairs.
Dancing at Soul House
Meeting on busses
Calls in the twilight
What’s on tonight?
What’s on tonight?

Somewhere
Somehow,
I die without you.
Somewhere
Somehow
I die without you in my life.
And it was all so cold
And dark.
so cold and dark.
The eclipse of a circle of trust.

I don’t know why
I don’t know how
A wrong turn
on the road somehow.
Some where
Some how.


But those few years,
Those few solid years with you in my life.
My living room,
My dreams,
My loves and delights.
No other group of people ever allowed me to be so alive.
Thank you, forever. Thank you.
Thank you from the reality
that we once shared in the night.
Thank you from the togetherness
we once smiled upon, laughing over coffee,
dancing in the lights of life.
Thank you with theater tickets
And stage productions,
With evening dinners looking up into the Skye.
Thank you from far away, far away,
Coming home again some day?
But always, always will I share
These moments with you.
And every night turns to day.
Even the longest nights turn today.