Catch Me

I'm going to look a little
harder and see if there's
more of me here

Sometimes you're looking
at me and wonder where
I've gone
I'm puzzled with my
absense too
I think it's when
the shadow comes to talk
that I'm taken away for a time
Catch me off guard
during these silent conversations
these private one on ones
that I am lost to you
for a while
You'll catch me running in my head
and finally the spinning wheel
moves on and casts its shadow
on the next soul
who takes retreat

I think it come to you
Sometimes when our ususal chatter
is quiet for a time
I think there is a little more of me here
thank God


written March 27, 1994