Today I Build a Letter

Today I build a letter in my mind,

with loving words and little blocks of dreams;

a letter you will seek but never find.

Today I write with my small breaths aligned

to the spring of life and its many streams-

today I build a letter in my mind.

The dervish dances to tunes undefined;

what are planets spinning at their extremes?

The letter you will seek but never find.

Remember the times I’d been left behind-

because I would stop to collect sunbeams?

Today I build a letter in my mind.

Our love is a tide, let me but remind-

that which first forfeits and later redeems.

The letter you will seek but never find.

This ever-rising ladder that I lined,

is thoughts that but intertwined at the seams-

today I built a letter in my mind;

a letter you will seek but never find.