I Have a dog

The sky shimmers like an ocean refrain 

Blue and swelling as it resists the creeping grain of stars in nightly haste

I’ve always loved this time of day

Looking over at you as you look on over the horizon 

I think you must love it too, but a thought sneaks in like the wind that I wonder if you don't

Where the colors slowly drip away as flame on paint for me

For you, it must be a slow drawing curtain that takes all the lightness away

Efficient as the government in November stealing away the day 

And as you watch, just like that your day is done and so you sleep instead of wait

And mine only began because we resist that urge so eagerly 

You know some things much better than me and I wish I could listen 

Ruffled fur twisted and curled with leaves and dirt caked to your pink skin

Speaking like a more intelligent human unashamed of your equal limbs as you explain 

I look at you and your eyes express rules that I can not comprehend 

I look at your eyes brown in intention and see my reflection 

We could sit here on the water for a millennium and I wouldn't understand them

I believe you know me better than I do

So we sit communicating how we do

We check on eachother as our eyes speak better than we do

As the sun rolls into a blanket of custardy clouds it leaves a trail leaking

Cotton candy slaloming to evaporate in the ocean 

Our deep brown eyes imploding before us with colors that bleed like syrup

Using human words out the side of my lips to explain it

But you see it, we both do, but its seperate 

And I talk to you like God on the telephone hoping for a response 

I see more of you than ever existed of him

Your behavior at the door and with the neighbor's uneven demeanor

The hair on your head crimping and falling down to a sweet bouquet for the necks covering  

Analyzing illness until our brain is sore from functioning 

Creases and wrinkles of time sliding to the temples, and a massage doesn't stop it

The freedom of water and grasses forever repeating

I know it and feel it at the same time you do

I know we’re both eager to prolong it, but time intervenes like an obsession

I would stop it, I promise you.

I hope that when its dark you too can see the stars because I’d hate to try and explain them

Maybe instead you’d show me what you’ve found out in the woods

I’d like that

Because it’s as if it's a secret for me and you

I know you'll go back to hide it, we both do that

I believe you’re closer to an ocean than any of us

A fluid course of triumphing decisions where we simply couldn't find the persistence

You won the hidden treats we scatter in ignorance, you did not steal them

We underestimate everything and you are smart enough to match our bet   

If a dog only needs a best friend 

We finally did something

And when I finally fall asleep I hope to find you in your dream

And join you in the pretty rolling ocean