Thank you, Tim. It is enough that you are here, that you have stayed when all the world seemed to be shooting arrows at me. Dawn

You loved me and left me a long time ago,
but here you are pulling me up by my bootstraps,
and here you are again, saying you will stay.

On the darkest day, when the world had caved in
all around me, through tears I remember seeing
you sitting there making sense of my babbling.

And as the river of pain gushed forth from me,
you were the rock around which I flowed. And you stayed;
you stepped in mid-stream, slowing raging waters,

siphoning off layers of scum, pollutant
lies others had poured into me. You accepted
my journey to love’s sea, soul inspiration

whose fire had consumed me. Refusing
to indulge with visions of our happy ending,
you let it be, be enough that you were there.

And it is enough that you are here today,
that you have bridged gap of heart and mind, calmed my storm.
And here you are again, saying you will stay

another day.