By Bryan Mitisek <bmitisek@mines.edu>
Date: 2 June 1999

Simple Things

      I find myself in a position where i love a person.  This 
itself tests my limits, my thoughts, and my sanity.  What do you do? 
You love, be paient, and hope.  But, what you are hopeing for 
is so trivial.
      Each moment sharded is worth all of the work and heart 
put into getting there.  These moments are enough to keep you waiting 
until you catch a glimpse of the fork in the road.  Then you 
realize how numbered the moments really are.  As you strive to
hold on to each last one, you reach a point at which you REALIZE,
and like sand it slipped through your fingers.
      You begin to miss the smiles, laughs, looks, the long talks, the 
hugs, everything that touched your heart like others couldn't.
As you struggle to get back what you so foolishly lost.  You
BEGIN to since that it is too late to talk about it.  Her innocents
and kindness only makes it that much harder.
      So without pride, envy, jelousy, or anger, i walk away, still
loving.  And i thank God everytime i remember.  But hope is the one
part of her that never leaves me.  
     Where is the last stand, or blind leap of faith?  Seizing the 
moment, the last moment, to risk all for an extension of joy. This 
seems like the "Say Anything" despiration that pays off in a seemingly
eternity of happiness. But few take the leap.  And as i stand on the 
edge, holding not a promise in my hand, i wonder if her hands are held
out to catch me.
     "Thank you... you are the closest to something real i have experianced.
I will always have my life open to you.  You should know that someone will 
always care for you. I would lay my life down for you, i ask for nothing."
    This hits my back and I am thrown forward, falling, knowing this 
is something I did a long time ago.  I love you.