In The Distance

I am standing here
and in the distance
is all of you that have been

I'm wondering
how did the lights go off
was I sleeping
was it so quick
that in the dream state
all awoke and left me
alone in the bed

I feel the residue of sweat
that dampens us
some evenings
am I naked

Sometimes the worst dreams
remove your clothes

I best stand proud
with my flesh
and in the distance
I see all of you
that have been

Waving goodbye
I blow you
each a kiss


June 18, 2001

I wrote this poem while still living in Richmond, B.C. At this point knowing that we would be moving to Ontario. I realized at that point that I really had no friends that particularily cared that I would be leaving, and I felt ghostlike and sad that even in my own birth place there were very few people that I was saying goodbye to.

I love Ontario, the people, the work, the friends and my family