In April

In April, I found love, twice

And I paid the price

One was a crush

The other not so much

In April, I knew sunlight

And I also knew night

One made life beautiful

The other made it dutiful

In April, I knew flowers

I also knew power

As I left March to April's scent

I also left it to find what life meant

In April, I saw life bloom

And I read Eliot dress it in doom

It is out of this womb

That I saw a day loom

April's day is a difference

Between closeness and distance

Where a heart hurries a distant memory

And close memories are not a remedy

Because one April day my love was born

Another April day my love was sworn

I didn't find my love among the touched

And I touched that which I didn't care for much

So, can the next April be the same

Where I see a face that doesn't have the name

And tell myself some other time

I'll split the stale from the sublime

In April, I learned a lesson few learn

It's possible to yearn

But the clock has no hands to turn

This April: Change is everyone's cocooned concern