By wideturn@ix.netcom.com
Date: 4 December 2000

Long Garment

                                                8/06/00

IF you would have me
		Having reached a place where all horizons lie unencumbered

Having looked at this life you've lived and found in your heart a place for me

			                                  Do not choose me

                       but to fill some long endured empty void

		But look into that heart again and find what feelings lie within,

                                                 for ME.

			I can not replace
				I can not erase
					I can not turn back time


			                              BUT OH, I CAN LOVE YOU!!!

Love you as I have all these years, from afar and behind a life unavailable.

So, if with the turning of life’s tides, fortune has brought you to this other possibility

		Slip on the long garment of our journeys

                                                and see if it would suit you well.