love the moment

I saw myself today Younger, milder Buying junk food with Crumpled dollars and spare change Such was the currency of young love And wonder stuffed in pockets Hungrily hoarded in a world of Questions without plausible response And you, you had the same look Skittish, almost shell shocked The life of puberty Full of acne and hormones and The beginning acts of adulthood follies Everyone else in the Exxon was Them All that mattered was Us The only world we trusted was Ours We knew Theirs Was old, empty and penniless Years later, miles behind me I look back and marvel at the paradox Of such foolish sages I check my pockets Saddened That so few Of those teenage Dimes and dollars Remain dg 9/18/11 Sent from my iPad http://jdavidgamble.blogspot.com/

The smoke From my cigar floats On the evening breeze A distant thunder rumbles Heat lightning flashes like Forgotten love or Fading regret A day lived well Lazy and unplanned It has taken years, miles Hard and unexpected To see this A young man Unaware and flimsy Once walked with me Now I smoke Knowing that Time does not fly by always It sometimes waits Passing slowly Asking only that We notice And savor its passing dg 9/6/11

Today is The first day... You complete the sentence Maybe the first day After the storm Maybe the first day Of no job We all live in different worlds Realities separate but intertwined Balls of cosmic string with Knots of time Like pieces of heart held with Memory epoxy Who would ever believe Such mosaical beauty Could grow From such broken lives dg 9/3/11 Sent from my iPad http://jdavidgamble.blogspot.com/