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Although the last phrase of: Although the last phrase of the last line stumbled me, I really like that first stanza's words:  I am writing for the beach / where the moon meets the lake.  That phrase is magnificent.

I experienced this, for the: I experienced this, for the first time and not the last, in January of 1978, when my then college sweetheart announced---at lunch among several of our mutual friends---that our relationship was over (and that table got very silent very quickly).  The short lines of your poem keeps the emotion flowing, and that emotion spoke volumes to me as I read it.  I am sorry you have had to experience this sort of thing, but you describe it with verbal skill.

Thank you.  Truly, "being: Thank you.  Truly, "being there together" with you and our community of Poets "is enough."

I can't think of a better way: I can't think of a better way to inspire acceptance, open-mindedness and kindness than this radiant expression. Certainly more unites us in our hopes and dreams than divides us in our moments of ignorance and fear.   Kudos for being a peacemaker and a guiding light.  

I have the start of Lung Cancer: Reguardless the out come Starward, God has brought me comfort!  Always had funny things to write about and serious poems also, I had fun!   William J. Roney III

I am glad you kept that: I am glad you kept that Crucifix, and I applaud your attendance at Saint Philips!  And thank you for your service in the Army. I have another Crucifix, which I keep on the table by the chair to which my condition confines me, which, at each of the four ends of the two beams, has small glass enclosure which contain items from the Holy Land:  gravel, flower petals, incense, and myrhh.  While the latter three are of recent gathering, as all plants must be, the gravel may have been there at the time Jesus was living there; it may have even been on one of the paths He trod.  The Crucifix also has a sunburst behind the Savior's image's head---a symbol that has fascinated me since I acquired my first Crucifix at the age of five years old. Thank you for telling me those aspects about yourself, and I hope to be able to hear future good news about your illness---that is my prayer.

I am very glad for your: I am very glad for your presence on Postpoems; and, although we have not had much interaction or communication, I applaud this testimony you have posted, and I am very thankful for that final paragraph, "Let's continue to be here . . ." which describes and summarizes one of the chiefest aspects of Postpoems, of which I am so thankful to be a member, and to be a member among such fine, fine Poets and human beings.  Our individual differences are like the themes and variations within a Sonata, but our great similarity---being Human---is the Sonata that makes those themes and variations possible.  Like Pop Stevens said in one of his greatest poems, "Being there together is enough."