INVOCATION

INVOCATION

It was my optimum desire
to forward you an invocation

and tell you (in an appendix)
that you should genuinely
feel free to deploy it
as you see fit

but I was unsure
of my vocabulary, in
particular which
verb would
be the most appropriate

so desperately reluctant
to get things perchance,
breaking every
protocol, twisting
customary practice,
getting things
irredeemably wrong

especially given
our fraught and brittle
exchanges
over the years

where so hard
to judge whether
things
   between us
cold as Arctic ice
on boiling
like the magma
in massive Vesuvius

and so
   I left it to you who or
what
best in this context
to invoke

whilst I felt caught between
the wish that
      in all aspects
you might “glow”, or
there again “sparkle”

beauty of rich sunset
     versus diamond string
of stars

unless
     best do both

         or best, neither

as the days shorten
and never
         grows real

I will invoke the gods and
the Universe itself

to ask, as last best gift,
some light might find you.