In my room upstairs in the house I grew up, I could lie in my bed and look out the open windows and over the backyard. I stared out at nothing, but saw everything.
Eyes Level To The Windows
6.20.2018
As I lay on my bed
Eyes level to the windows
Eyes level to the storm
A flash over the backyard
The power of the lightning
Hear the roar of the thunder
Over the cries
Of the Flash Flood alarm
As I lay on my bed
Eyes level to the windows
Eyes all over the yard
At its end, the Crabtree
And the two before, Cherry
Little branches weigh under
The weight of cherries galore
All seasons
All from my windows
So many reasons
Through the seasons
Why to my windows
My gaze goes
As I lay on my bed
Eyes level to the windows
Eyes level to the snow
See the icicles, stalactites
From the snow-covered gables
I spy winter wonders
From my vantage below
All seasons
All from my windows
So many reasons
Through the seasons
Why to my windows
My gaze goes
As I lay on my bed
Eyes level to the windows
Eyes on the driveway below
I hear someone coming
I know they’re your footfalls
I come a running
I’m coming my love
All of the seasons
All from my windows
So many reasons
To look out and below
All of the seasons
All from my windows
But you are the reason
I come down below
Regardless of season
I’m coming my love
