Warm hug

I look up
as a tear rolls slowly
down my cheek
I think about better days
and wonder if I'll feel that way again
you look at me
with those eyes I know so well
always serious, so deep and insightful
as though you're always in control
But not today
not now
To Watch You Leaving . . .

Is to know such pain, it's jagged edges tearing into my soul. As a stake from the garden tears into the warm, dark earth.

Knowing all the while that never again will I fit myself, warm with sleep, against your solid back.

I need you