We take what we can

Well when it's over, we can count what's ours

and what's not, on the petals of a flower

the way we used to predict a fickle love.

but for now, as it happens,

before we call it,

before the curtains close

we'll take whatever we can from each other

take the pearl from the lunar eyes of our lovers loving, or the

deep saffron from the belly laughs of youth

take the cedars, and the sages from a forgiveness that saved us and the

smoke left behind by a loss felt too soon

and when we take what we can from each other

we give what we can to each other

then we're no longer strangers, or Others

or secluded wells of dark water

we're gulfs, sharing aquamarines, salts and sand

volleying and refracting the same sunbeams

the same stars

the same clouds.