Curly white hair
Glasses
A smile that is kind
Although sometimes slightly strained
And that’s almost all I know of you
So for the rest I’m going to wing it
But I mean it
From that place that exists
Between us all
And when I look at you from
The doorway there
It seems to me
That your eyes have seen
Enough broken promises
For a lifetime
I only see you in church
We barely even speak
I asked you about your holiday
You said it was rough
You have some health issues
I said I’d keep you in prayer
But we both knew
I would quickly forget
And that was all
That’s all there ever is
Promises aren’t always broken
Sometimes they just fade into darkness
But you
You are the light of the world
And light travels fast
Like the way you exit stage left
From every conversation
Once the service is over
My friend
You are to me
The quantum man
Unknowable
You exist in all potentials
The perfect sum of infinite possibilities
Collapsed into one shy smile
And that is how I know you
As one who was born into this world
And first saw it’s horrors
Through the eyes of a child
And only later
Through the eyes of a man
Who exists to protect
That child
From any more
Broken promises
