for a vagabond (iii)

it took you so long to realize
i had asked you a question
three hundred years and then some,
and i wonder how long
it will take before you
formulate an answer:
ten centuries or a second?
but after that, let us
seek our fortunes,

let us find the holy grail
in run-down taverns, let us
chat to old men who have
lived on mountains for
decades, let us lay with
strangers and one another,
let us see the sky in the
ocean and the ocean in lakes,
let us clothe ourselves in
silk and marvels.

come, let us
find ourselves in each
other.