June 27, 2025

Amends

















Can you meet me at the corner 
of “Forgiveness” and “Compromise?”
Where we’ll talk things out
until we laugh so hard we cry 

Then we’ll make our way down the lane
to the gazebo called “Music Nights”
where soft soulful sounds start 
when you walk under the lights 
We’ll dance a little maybe or just sway 
making it easy, making it right 

Perhaps the bench in “Nostalgia Park” 
will have us remembering how you first walked by 
and how it started with a little “hi”
when the fire was in the brain first 
with you and I 
how not much later 
you felt you could fly 

Then we’ll take some moments 
to pause at that slam cafe 
that fun one called “Bleeding Hearts Brew”
Where poets spill angsty lines like:
“nothing else matters” and “still need you”
and a spark will light up 
something like anew 

Sounds like such a solid plan 
Let me know if you can
Meet me tomorrow by that bookstand 
I’ll be the one holding a novel’s hand 
entitled: “I’ll Always Try to Understand”

Les’Nspired