Dear milestone

When you smile

You're some kind of devlish

When you offer to explain

You are welcoming

When your frustration reaches the brim

Your eyes could kill a bear

When you hold me

I couldn’t escape

When you are asleep

I urgently duck your swinging elbows

But when you do awake

You are no short of sweet

The kisses you spray

Glue to my neck for the rest of the day

And give the beginning and an end

For this alone I could walk

A line of fire and through rays of horror

To you my love I say

On with the faces, grimaces and knowledge,

Emotion and progression

Sealing it with a kiss

So blunt

So gentle

And to the far

Cries of the sky

To live and to life.

3/4/06