Poem: Sometimes

Sometimes life beyond knowing is waiting there to know . . .

Sometimes Sometimes all the firsts in life are not yet over, but it takes a mind that’s wide as life, a readiness to leave the certainties, a gambler’s instinct Sometimes, the risks are worth the risk, sometimes not There may be friends and lovers out of sight, beyond the length and width of everyday, a pricey menu in a foreign tongue Long trip for a meal, a continent away Sometimes, the restaurant lives up to expectation Of all the possibilities we held out to one another, each had warmth and promises of pleasure, contingencies of shattered confidences, eventualities that might be hard to turn away Sometimes, life beyond knowing is waiting there to know Tickets for a concert, walking, touched only at fingertips, a constant intervention of skin-hunger, the mutual rise and swell of shared thought, pouring ourselves from you to me and back Sometimes, that rarity of church bells, ringing at intermission

This poem is included in Jim Freeman's poetry collection CORNER OF MY MIND available here in print or as an e-Book in your favorite formats.