Every goddamn day

The same thing

            Or else I go crazy

Sit and eat

And think

And drink

And try to remember what love is

Then

When it gets too hot

Sleep

And dream of love

Wake up hungry

For love

Work towards love

Until the sun sets

Then sup on love

Then wash my face

Turn out the light

And listen for love in the dark

Future perfect (in Sapphic Verse)

Patience, patience, my sweet friend, patience, slowly

recall all the memories of the days when

we ran blindly unconcerned with grief, dying -

our current partner.

 

We stand in a river that flows not away

also not towards anything - also nothing

is here nor there -  all is just something

remembered my friend.

 

Recall recall those old days my friends and then

they will return be assured - again nothing

has happened that hasn't happened also

has never happened.

 

Sweet friend recall joy is upcoming to you

if you wait and memory's former promise

will have been fulfilled in anticipation -

in future perfect.