Thoughts of you are as everyday

As seconds are to timeI can dream each curled up lip

As if each smile were mine

The sparkle you have when you look...

Way off to catch a dream

The stretch you give to movements

From fingers in life's stream

The grin that wants to burst apart

From laughter hiding in your head

The mighty ways you have so strong

When others think too big

You scale that dream and go for broke

Just when I think you're through

You take a step a little further Just because you're you

You give everything you have to give

To most everything you do

Then when I think you have no more

You have much more to prove

You...you are the genius

With a child who is inside...

This man whose spirit runs to play

Then with his passions, ride

The amazing difference in your soulIs when it isn't tired

You stretch your arms as though were wings

Then take that draft and fly

You, dear friend, are a prince

With royal feelings, true

You beat a breath into my heart

Then take a little too

Just leave me something to get by

In case there comes the chance

To hold much tighter to this dream

That asked us here to dance

My dance card will always hold

A chance to sway with you

To sip those moments just for tears

That need the drying too

You are a handsome man of words

And fondest dreams that play

So often thinking "what if" comes along

Then takes my heart away.

© 2004 Susan K. Rowse