There

June 15, 2012

Singing at the top of my lungs

I went there today.

Letting the warm windiness

Carry the tear slipping down my face away.

Thinking of everything but what waited

I went there today.

Pretending it was just another

Shade edged gravel road.

Another day.

There.

A place that holds no significance

But feels like maybe it might.

I can’t help it.

It draws me like a bee

To a flower picked yesterday.

Disappointed,

But I knew all along.

It’s just a stone of remembrance.

Peaceful,

A hill to the valley.

The swaying, listening trees

The only company I’ve got today.

I asked you why I came there today.

The granite isn’t you.

The grass isn’t your hair.

The earth isn’t your skin.

The graven, hard sunk letters

Are not your words.

But it’s your name.

And mine.

Remembered

When I’m miles away,

It’s etched on my fingertips.

I will make you proud.

Rising from my knees

I know I have to go.

There is no reason to stay

There.

So thus with a kiss…

I return to the normal we’ve become.

A few tears lighter,

A few promises heavier.