blue diamonds

I've seen the way they look at you
across the busy street,
with twilight in their eyes
but yours they'll never meet.
Blue diamonds
in the reasons you were come -
returned to this.
Summertime
wrapped in winter blankets
(stole a kiss).
Left alone
with a cup of yesterdays -
might a penny buy (a lifetime)
a softer place to lay.

I've seen the world
through other eyes -
not the ones I'm using now.
There are places one can run to,
will change it all somehow.
Not the mission
or the marriage -
not the road beyond the bend -
but a house (I once was dreaming)
purple walls
are falling in.

There's a row of stones
need mending -
busted down by moving on.
Some mother cried (her baby came)
another leaving home.
There's a place he was
(a place beside)
my name is written there.
A barbwire fence
and ten year weeds -
nobody left to care.

But I do -
I care enough to see you now.
I won't turn away
from anguish
if it's a moment you'll allow.
When I can see
the best you are
is colored black and blue.
There's dirty words
and dirty worlds -
but it's the best that you can do.

From here I see to times before,
when wandered to and fro.
Never knew where you were going,
til it came the time to go.
Nowhere was home,
nowhere was far -
far enough that you'd forget
what it felt to hurt,
what it meant to heal
(you're waiting on that yet).

I've seen the way they look at you,
and I wonder if they care
just how much they have to learn
from you -
how much you have to share.