No Easy Answers

Blackbird Fly Away

by Shane Owen at deviantart

I heard an owl this morning
just before dawn,
and I thought of you,
all these decades gone:
waking to the doves'
gentle coo,
me amazed 
at waking
next to you,
with your
dark blackbird heart,
so lovely
in my eyes,
soaring/captive Brother eagle,
both longing for
and fearful of
the skies.

Your beauty and your pain
held my heart fast,
fire and rain,
I thought would 
for forever last,
a fire of passion
felt for no one other,
a rain of tears
when you could not
tell me:
"Stay,"
and so I 
slowly turned
and walked away.

"No easy answers,"
was what you always told me ,
with your so-easy smile,
and those compelling eyes.
There was an easy answer,
but you could not say the words.
You could not choose just one sparrow,
with the sky so full of birds.

We set the doves free
when I left.
Blackbird was playing
on the stereo.
I loved you then,
and love you still,
though you may 
never know.

I have remained,
this lifetime,
a solitary dove.
The answer was, 
Brother Dreamer,
then and always,
only ever Love.