1-31 Waiting For You

when I was young,
or younger, than I am
at heart now,
I believed in everything,
everything anyway,
a heart as young as mine,
could believe in,
when I was young,

you would awake me,
awake me, quietly,
when the moon had already
gone to bed, with me,
in bed, awake, quietly,
waiting for you,
to awake me,
when I was young,

we went outside,
folding chairs, pistachios,
in hand, looking up
and out, we went outside,
folding chairs, under our arms,
pistachios in your pocket,
looking up and out,
when you would awake me,

the night unfolded,
the moon in bed,
before us,
swaths of sparkling lampposts,
guides, beckoning, in our lawn-chairs,
looking up at the night unfolding,
in swaths of sparkling, lampposts,
flickering, river guides, beckoning,
pistachios in hand,
I believed in everything,
looking up and out,
I believed in everything,
when I was young,

time passes,
I grow,
you still wake me up,
the heart grows,
I grow,
you still wake me up,
time passes,
I grow,
the heart grows,
younger, older,
I believe in everything,
pistachios in my hand,
folding chairs, put away,
I grow,
time passes,

the moon returns to my bed,
before us,
wakes me up,
quietly,
waiting for time to pass,
to grow, quietly,
the heart unfolding,
the moon in my bed,
awake,
a flickering lamppost,
in the night sky,
when I am young,
when you were young,
well, younger than my heart is now,
we believed, in everything,

time passes,
the heart grows,
I still believe,
time passes,
the heart looks up and out,
time passes,
the heart,
still lies awake,
waiting,
for you.