May Morning
lyric by C. Franklin, music by Daniel M. Dobkin
I would have stopped time,
if only I could:
on a May morning
at eleven o'clock.
A helicopter strumming the thick early air,
a dog barking down the next block:
You with warm smile and
flashing eyes,
all packed, about to depart.
Me, with ears, and eyes, and heart
open wide
memorizing all your smallest sounds.
If only the sunlight could
everywhere
Have hardened slowly
to golden glue,
Imprisoning us, eternally new,
as warm as May, and the essence
of you.