as I stand there with her
my muse
in Portsmouth
on the waterfront
my eyes and thoughts
together
look northeast
beyond the building tops
of Norfolk
where my sight
begins to fade
and gives way
to my mind’s eye
which transports
my thoughts
along the ocean’s edge
until coming to rest
in Boston…..
it is there I wish
as I daydream
like the shy young boy
I was
when I
first met her
if I asked her
at this moment
to come stay
with me there
so to care for her
she would joyfully
say yes….
suddenly ~ I hear
my father’s words
yep ~ whispering
from the cloudy
heavens above
(while in the Navy
my father
was stationed in Norfolk
on the USS Randolph)
~ son
wake up
silly boy
the man ends up
where the woman is from ~
Image & Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~