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Once upon a real lifetime... There we all were...Holding hands and promising... While watching batted balls flying in April High upon the air... Dancing under stars on a gymnasium floor... And we all knew way back then... All we ever needed to know... About forever...Forever more... But more than that... We knew what was really priceless... And that hot dogs and sodas Were better than champagne or caviar! And that a diamond was always found Upon the round shape of a circle... And that a circle had no end I knew it never did... I knew it even when... I said: I will never recover from something so incurable.. Like death for instance... Or Cancer... Or War... And then I woke up one morning To find that overnight My son had grown up within my circle Into almost a man... A man Michael would have positively loved... Even if he was another man's son! That stupid war got resolved in Paris... The "City of Lovers"??? Long after I learned mine was never really "Coming Home" But he left me a gift...Of hope..So cherished... That in spite of all the odds Against ever seeing any circle That was not broken... I found not just one...But two...Then three... Then thousands! Circles upon circles of people...Not afraid anymore... To open up about: "That War"... Which ended in that "City of Lovers"??? But Michael left it all up to me... To finally open one special gift That gift of always finding my way back home upon our circle Since he was always still on "Point" To people who can still look at spring... And instead of remembering only places Hatchmarked with crosses... They remember only Diamonds... And find their own place upon my circle of friends As each new year begins! He even left me a Wall filled with stars! Blazing sorta like the sky at midnight... Like all those times we parked And talked about forever... But I never visited That Wall... Until I opened a web page Finally linking us all in one huge circle to one another.. Thank God! And today I got more gifts! After posting another: "Hey Michael?" Who never really died... He's just up there... In a Dust-Off... Hanging out... Somewhere... Until my DEROS... Wouldn't ya just know it! There he was...Michael...Still grinning! And the gifts he sent me Reminded me of just how durable are diamonds... And of what he still views as his... Forever... Like baseball diamonds... Like my heart... And Michael still sees another special diamond That one upon a golden circle... He placed so long ago... On a day called: Graduation... Upon the hand of Jules... |
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