4:00 am is a pretty important hour
the hour i rise the hour i fall
the pivotal point of all of our calls
for it is either the beginning or the end
of a chapter.
i once was told that if
two writers come together
they'll be met with disaster
jealousy will crawl through their veins
a needy green babe
and the art of comparison
will become their only concern
but i have found
that when two writers come together
such as, you and i
things tend to work quite well
between your eyes of blue
and mine of brown
there is sky and earth
and common ground
beneath your sea
and between my clouds
there is a creature called Love
we're not entirely sure what breed
but there's definitely quite a bit of lizard
you can tell by his blue tongue
and sorry eyes
and the way he says hello
now we agreed that if we ever tried to raise a child it would be a wreck
but we didn't discuss a creature
and i think we'd be quite good at it
in fact i could think of no other
i would rather raise a creature with
especially this particular
and delightful mutt
because i would hope that they would learn from you
elegance and honesty
and cleverness and poise
and how to sing real well
i would hope that they would learn from you
the intricacies of connotation
and that they would ignore my thoughts on the matter
that they would learn
kindness and goodness and how to be true
to your beliefs and what makes up you
i would hope that they would adopt your venom
and your detestation for not knowing
things that you would very much like to know
that they would learn saucy mercantilism
and how to sing in cars
and how to open one page at a time
i would hope that he would learn from you
as much as learn from me
and i know that together we can grow
this wonderful terrible
thing.