Gemini Sunset Poem by jim hogg

I saw you first across the fields
between the wanting and the dream
when we were barely fully grown
it must have been a while ago

we spoke from time to time of wings
of love and hope and timeless things
of forests and of distances
of passion and of mysteries

another guy soon took your arm
and I, another woman's hand
the truth, of course, fell out of sight
but Gemini still shone as bright

a little time, a little life
the heavens turned round twice or thrice
a thousand songs had come and gone
as you and I kept moving on

until you joined me on the waves
and took my arm to keep me safe
but long before we even spoke
my heart was yours to have and hold

and later, when the stars came out
we didn't look or call them down
we broke the ice and sipped the flames
'til one of us got clean away

I heard you breathe and felt the spell
when nearly thirty years had fled
towards those tiny points of light
across the blazing fields of night

the walls were high, inside my mind
though rising suns will always shine
but you, who I would always love
became a stranger on the bus


(song)

13 02 21