Replacement

Together for a handful of years

Held hands on Brooklyn streets

Your winter nose was cold

From head to little toes

In the dark theatre

At the art museum

The sculpture park

Concert hall

And the philharmonic

We took in high culture

Subways

Taxi cabs home late at night

That special day with a limousine

Holidays

Greeting in the new year

Home cooked deliciousness

Together

We’d share our death dreams

You shared your desire to take the bridge leap

Traced your contours with my tongue

Walked my fingers down

Abundance of love

A surplus

Too much given

Reflecting, not received

Not enough for you

Tall, rich, fit

Not a man of violins

I never knew

I could be so easily replaced

© 2026 David Greg Harth

26.02.05.20.25.00@NYC