Lou J. Klaiber

TIME TAKES IT ALL AWAY
(for Diane)

Sitting here
staring
at a coffee cup.

A lazy southern morning
sky

waiting for you.

I am alone
within the joy
and the sorrow
of our lives

yet
love shines through

In memory of the brave.

… young men
side by side

on Gunships
gone to war

and morning tears
upon a Wall.

In the places of the heart
where the homeless dream

it is all the same

just you
and me
within the last prayer
of a troubled world.

A place we call home.

(the Doctor called and I said… OK!)

I light another cigarette.

… and the Gunships
have all
flown
away.