- Michaela
How Are You?
What I mean is
This is hard and I'm afraid you'll want to stop
Stop talking, silent as a ghost
Stop seeing, like a needle whose eye is passed through
Or see too much! discerning all.
What I mean is
I don't want it to be about me because it's time things were about you
For once, long overdue
For once, the universe giving you gentleness
Or spurring you on, the North wind at your back
Like Diamond, from that story I drank up as a child.
What I mean is I wish, I wish, I wish...
And if wishes were kisses we'd all be over the moon
(The moon, near full, silver on trees and bench
And on tremulous water, shining in the same sky,
Over the same world
Which makes us all so close and closer
Sometimes
Than we'd like when it's stretching room that's wanted
And if the earth were emptied would
Solace in such solitude be enough?
What I mean is
You are something bright and splendid
"Something apart from common life"
And the world is more wholesome
For your integrity
Your dizzying mind
Your heart in your eyes...
What I mean is
How are you?