Trying to Understand

 

 

What would happen

If I pretended to be a magician

And placed you in a top hat

Then pulled you out

As doves?

 

What would happen

If you kissed me by mistake

Then kissed me in apology

For the mistake?

 

What would happen

If I tried

To put my hand on your chest

Just to search for a moon I had lost?

 

What would happen

If I reached my hand into your eyes

And pulled out all the seagulls?

 

What would happen

If you had not happened?

The universe would be thrown

Off kilter, and the poets

Would lose the wolf

Of their wisdom.

 

It happens

That nothing happens

When you are not there.