• LOVE AT FIRST BIT
    by UC Poika


    the wind seems to be free again today
    running over the parking lot like rain
    unstoppable but welcome wild like a herd
    of unbroken horses in open unrestricted range
    it reminded me of me when you spoiled my ways
    before I first knew anything about love's pains
    or a need for meaning in all my spoken words
    before I found out love would leave me estranged
    from, and even hating, myself for wanting to flee,
    to run away from our affliction same as you...
    maybe a man like me should fall by degrees
    to allow him time to ponder the puzzling clues
    for now we can never be free ever again
    but just where we both would rather always have been.