Asking for a friend

Is there a 12 step program when love slips a disc

to bone on bone?

Maybe a soft tissue glue?

How many sleeps til the want

to sip from the cup of a new day returns?

Where does the moon hide for half her life?

Or is it secret like a women’s shelter?

The joy of a wagging tail -

Is that only for dogs?

If she wishes it for another

does it go to the top of the pile?

Where did she go? The mother she misses.

Is the missing forever?

If she never asks for another blessing

can she keep the ones she has?

The whales … can we always have them?

Is it too late? The weather and so forth.

The suffering in their eyes - do we eat that too?

Get back to me when you can.