For Now

With more than exhaustion in your voice,
I read your eyes for signs of limits on eternity.
From across the ocean
of our bed, I watch a wing of sparks
fanning off from some purpose your mind is grinding.
Falling as soft as gravity welcomes ash,
each sliver of light glows
bright enough to illuminate
the clutter of curses and caresses
that have piled below our history.
We have given each other all
the details needed to deceive, despise,
demean and deliver.

We don't know the future,
but for now we trust
each other.



by jerry gordon
2008