I’ll find you again 

with another name 

different face 

in another age 

 

we’ll remember 

this circumstance 

on hearts’ pathways 

lubricated and well-worn  

 

we’ll cause good trouble 

take a pause from the war 

seconds out from the struggle 

to acknowledge our plots 

 

we’ll cause good trouble 

always worth the cost 

after all we always take it with us 

it’s included in the cost

 

I think of you at odd moments 

when the heavy lifting’s done 

the grind of monotony 

relieved by a contractual time-out 

 

And I hope you don’t feel 

it was wasted; the inevitable result 

of a life spent loving and learning 

not everything’s cut-out wrong