Always difficult

There is always

someone more

to know

always someone worth always

like her

under the blue light

who will always be there

in your mind

making you want

to speak

or listen

or both

until someone else unknown

comes along

who is more than always

*

Life is long

but he died young

younger than it took

to know such a phrase

and so no one said it

because we wondered there

over a chip of wood

and strings for a sweater

whether he or we

knew anything at all

in a world so old

and tired

and forgotten by most

*

Love is the most difficult

despite spending a lifetime

loving and being loved