Longing

Cherish the cicadas

their seventeen year courtship

they wait to hear

their one syllable love song

three weeks long.

Respect the swami

who plods twenty-five years

in search of his guru

his true love

that lasts forever.

But I sort through words, for ones

that would move Neruda.

It might take lifetimes

be a half beat

and never be noticed

outside my heart and his.