Sam Mayhue Poet Free verse

If You Knew

Heaven was an idle thought
And I am --
I have been the dry bones in the desert.

If you knew black boughs
and residue of dreams
you would know

Heaven was an idle thought 
And that I am -- 
I have been the dry bones in the desert.

If you knew light hovers
behind these blinds (navy blue)
and that light bulbs are as crypts
to a morning's mistaken light,
then you would know.

Heaven was an idle thought
dreamt by a little boy
carried to bed in late evening,
lying in a dark room before the light had fled.
You would know that I am --
ribs gleaming, luminous fragments
pieced together with care.
You would know
that I have been the dry bones in the desert.

If you knew that today the world is sapped
and the colors have fled
that we are moored together by brown patches
you would know
that the green of your eyes 
is a lighthouse's beam
and though you have built towers of my hair
                                     mountains of my skin,
and though against my bones,
your bones have lain,
you would know
we are a reflection in a sun
stretching dying arms of orange.

And if you knew --
You would know --
Heaven was an idle thought
And I am -- 
I have been the dry bones in the desert.
You would know

that Heaven was --
that Heaven was --
that I am --
and that Heaven was --

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