Not Just Back for Coffee
My love,My soul and your soul
Are very old friends,
Older than the Earth,
Older than the ancient stars.
Together we rode the Big Bang
Into existence in ecstasy, when time began.
Together we watched the first star
Light up the dimness
Of the afterglow of creation,
And saw the Milky Way
Coalesce into a hundred billion
Firey balls of light.
We saw the sky on Earth
When it first turned blue,
After a million years of rain
That filled the oceans.
We saw the first fish jump,
And the first tree grow.
This is the first stanza of this "story poem." In the rest of the poem the poet tells his love that they used to be so alike that they bored each other. They were “just two reflections of one self, and had nothing to share, like a worm cut in two by a spade, one half growing a head, the other a tail.” The poem goes on to tell what they did about that, to make themselves fascinating to each other.
“Not Just Back For Coffee” is the first of six story poems, and seven poems taken from lyrics of songs I have written, that make up my Kindle ebook of poems Strange Lands of Poetry, that you can purchase from Amazon.com for just $4.95. If you don't have a Kindle, you can download a free Kindle reader for PC or Mac from Amazon.com that will enable you to read the ebook on your computer. If you are an Amazon Prime member and own a Kindle, you can borrow the book for free until at least April 15, 2012.
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