Sublime

watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face,

then a castaway in the wide ocean of possibility,

I had taken him for confident when he was in truth full of worry and terror.

undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise

I understood that happiness is within our grasp if we reach for it.

With God’s happiness, he writes back, I accept the pedestal of power,

“We are that fraction of old magic that remains.”