There Was a Time

The kiss was felt around the world

There was a moment
When all that existed spilled into no time

I spiraled into the clouds

The violin strings

Wrapped around my heart

Tugged me into the heavens

Her lips have long subsided

But her lips fire me into this old day

I had been a hard man

But a tear rolls down my cheek

As the butter melts in the frying pan

Her absence is reflected

In my granddaughters

She and I have become something else

Sometimes I think only a hard man

Could have driven down this road

Maybe a crazy man

My loving daughter tells me she is with again

I smile and embrace her

And I miss the taste of her mother