(For Stephanie)
Love woke you up too early
Like the suns unwanted kiss
Warming your sleepy cheek.
You got up,closed the blinds.
It was a day self-defeated to the
Companionship of loneliness.A war only
Won by the youth of peaceful old age
Or a sage smile of pained perseverance.
Seasonal depression thaws out slowly.
Left over ennui might make turkey tacos.
A Decembers’ soft suns’ finger tips will
Curl the corners of your reluctant lips,luckly.
A gut feeling unlike unexpected endometriosis,
Promises something special this Christmas.
Jakob Helleis
DOC #AA-1134
