posted February 14, 2007 01:55 PM              

you crazy, wonderful, outrageous nut
you're stuck in some kind of mystical rut!

running around Hollywood, like an overgrown druid
trying so hard to be teeny-tiny and magical

..that's not easy to do
when you're six feet two

and thinking you can make miracles
as effortlessly and swiftly as an elf at the North Pole
makes a red-and-white-striped peppermint candy cane

today you even tried to stop the rain

it was pouring cats and dogs outside

and you said

"I'll bet I can bring out the Sun
for you .. and stop the rain
just watch!"

then you squeezed your eyes tightly
and concentrated tightly too
squeezing your mind
and you prayed and prayed
and you waited .. and waited .. and waited
and you believed .. and believed .. and believed

murmuring, "Abracadabra ... magic!"

oh, you were so grieved
it hurt you so, I know
when the rain wouldn't stop
you just stood there .. forlornly
in your sloshy Jerusalem sandals
your toes all squishy-squashy wet
with tiny raindrops sparkling on your lashes

and I watched your yellow-gold aura
grow dimmer around your head, as you said

softly, so sadly

"I guess I lost my bet"

no, you didn't stop the cloudburst--you failed
but you tried, you tried, you tried!
that's what was so perfectly marvelous ...
...you tried

do you know how it made me ache inside
and how deeply I understood?

it gave me a sharp loving-pain
when you tried so hard to stop the rain

posted February 14, 2007 09:51 PM              

"February People Are Real Pals"

Lovers all use the same script
when they play their final scene

"Well, we almost made it, didn't we?
It's really better this way
I'll call you someday"
after a love affair ends
and they know it's time they parted

With you, it was
"Can't we be friends?"

Friends?

That's how the whole thing started!

old chum, old pal, old Water Bearer buddy of mine
my comical, blundering, lost and lonely Valentine

posted February 15, 2007 01:49 PM              

Nice addition Kismetkaizen , that one
is in LOve POems, too!

posted March 20, 2019 05:13 PM            

a11 I can say is,

"Love and Magic!"