for amanda and eric

you might meet out of blue skies 
of firm and gorgeous splendour 
a man like eric 
and count yourself lucky 
to have lived long enough to know 
that ruing a life lost
ain't gonna go nowhere fast 

because the ways of seeing 
of eric's perspicacity and thinking 
like quicksilver of mercurial planet 
lead to you realise 
that even berger may find his match 

and you could know when amanda 
that on engaging with a mind and head
of fabulous furniture 
you'd see the #whirled is something 
quite clearly true and beautiful:
not only to be pleasured
but honestly treasured 

as the repository of wisdoms 
learnt and innate both it's a fact 
and where the human factor
cracks the #streetcryptography 
of the humans that do cruelty

as some of us do humanity:
really naturally 
and as casually as a kiss
blessed of deep wish 
and desires unfolding gradually 
which is actually what i sensed 
as two people seemed to want 

to get close to me 
in ways i had forgotten years ago 
involving true aspirations
to human relations 
where only good might ultimately result 

and so hurtling through my universe
i begin to taste flavours 
which i had neglected to savour for ages
and recall and roll around my mouth 
as if the tongue of intellect 
mutates all of a sudden 
into one of true love

for there is a #whirled out there 
and maybe even for me 
where the cruelties 
of #startup's diabolical unicorn 
might be replaced with female zebra clean 

"and why not?" she might ask
as amanda often does these days 
but not to leave the question 
sitting balefully 
at the top of the baldnesses
that constitute money's 
overwhelmingly male predilections 

instead my friends it's this:
amongst us three people metamorphosing
and perhaps this being a reality
into friends who could treasure each other
into a differently deep infinity 

an eric of shameless diversity 
and crackling thought 
when anything but ought 
and an amanda of sudden insight 
almost shamefully brought to light 
in the creeping sense of:
"what right did i have ever 

to ever have that idea ... ever?"
but then she recapitulates as she now should
because growth is the order of the day 
and she's learning quickly
that the world needs to hear

what she has to say for sure
oh lordy yes
and absolutely without interference 
and just the raw of her reality
as eric then chimes in 
with impossible opinion 
which nevertheless never fails 

to fit the facts they are ...
and then there's me my friends 
for this is my hope
let this not be a dream at all at all again
and even if it must be and even if it is

even so let us awake to each other 
tomorrow let's say in the morning 
a "god morgon" even too
and over coffee begin to show the rest 
how we might really right 
this torn and awfully leaking vessel
which will be the #whirled we want to remake