TAKE TIME

I.

Have you taken
TIME
(as if you would live
forever)

To write poetry
and drink coffee

Time to be with your lover
without the thought of anything

(have you taken just a few
years
to go to Asia
and sit for some time
with the masters)

II.

Just once have you spent
more money than you had
on a beautiful machine

and gone riding,
allowing weekends to stretch
into weeks

Lost with an angel who feeds
you only love
(let everything go to ride through
the Indian-Summer)

III.

Then after years in Asia/Europe
did you come home

(knowing India is your mother-goddess
and that when you die you would like
your body burned in the ghat by the river)

Perhaps your brothers rode by your side
as you carried her to the crossing over

(then more angels came,
always the angels coming to my door)

I only sit quietly,
drinking my coffee
writing this poetry
(and letting all my dreams come true)