Charles
There is no time.
There is not enough time
to know what I know I could have known about you.
We all know what we know
and that is today
nothing more than that we love you.
What we wonder is not even where you have gone
but how you can have gone
anywhere
other than here
with us
right now
which you are Charles
standing in a blues club you are right now
or maybe shouting at me for something stupid I’ve done
or asking me to rub your shoulders
I’ll do that. Like I did before.
And you will sleep. Like you did before.
You dropped a tear
and you shook your rattle
like so many before you
and
God willing
so many to come
Sleep well Charles.