For you

As I watch you walk away ..

You in your gray sweatshirt contouring your familiar shape

deliberately confident with each echoed step you’d take.

While my heart has lost a home I still set you on your own..

Watching you board that modern bird
where will it take you and
have you heard?

The song we used to sing every time the new day can bring..

Us hope for a gasp of..
Another breath sighing with that large smile.

Tomorrow engraved in our eyes all the while ..

Me knowing soon you would be going.

Time hasn’t healed this wound..

Yet I knew I would have to
Stop longing…