Friend

Each choice we make will lead us down a different path,
Remember when the only value was the day?
The canyons crossed we stopped to linger on the cliff.
~ The buddha hole,
~~~ your cherry-wood,
~~~~~ a smokey haze.

You saw the dream behind the wall outside my self,
Constricting world could not begin to put us down.
And though immortal I once was I found I'm not.
~ Of battles fought,
~~~ the story told,
~~~~~ a circle round.

Know the hawk still guards the falls from up above,
Demented patch of scraggly limbs among the rock.
A fledgling soul I wandered far from childhood nest.
~ The nomad fool,
~~~ a shooting star,
~~~~~ the broken clock.

It's so good to hear your voice again my friend,
Nostalgic mists on the horizon soon reveal.
Though years have passed you still remain a part of me.
~ A bond of trust,
~~~ a kindred soul,
~~~~~ a blood-pact still.


Kiyotei
Summer 94.