HAIKU: IF WE WERE YOUNGER

By Charles Robert Lindholm

If we were younger

I SHOULD HAVE LET YOU!

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I should have let you
when you asked me
I should have told you
“Please don’t stop”

I should have let
your passions win me

I FEEL THE RIVER RAGING

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I feel the river raging
I hear it’s mighty roar
wild and uncontrollable
like it’s never been before

Skin

It is rumored that there are 50 words

In the Eskimo language for snow

I ponder

Why are there not 50 words in the

English language

That I could draw upon

To describe that moment

When your bare skin

Touches my bare skin?

As you are asleep

I look at you as you are asleep in your chair,
and I cry, for no other reason than my thoughts.
I notice how you hair is whiter now.

What if I am gone before you, who will laugh with you,
share your dark sense of humour, and who will be there
watching you sleep in your chair?