In The Tears Of A Stranger

I learned many things from him ... That the trackless path is gifted to those who believe That the distance between thoughts can only be connected by words That the idea itself is worthless without the thing it expressed That tomorrow is no more important than yesterday or today That the bullfighter must never die with the bull still alive That revolution is the truest place where death is reborn That real courage is only measured by the one sorely lacking That to love her once is better than to love her again That you must when you must until the bugles have stopped That worshipping oneself is life’s fatal devotion That the jungle we chase is the jungle we live in That the willingness to say it frees a willingness to act That each great new adventure begets a greater new ending That in the tears of a stranger bleeds the heart — of a friend (Key West: January, 1994)