When you are gone,
I will with silence remember.
I shall hold the tear for another day,
and take you here to this
sacred place where all that
you were and remain
shall live again in absence
filled with these tapestries
of days when passion
groaned loud and you
were the one not ready
for the winter chill but living
always in summer days.

When you are gone I shall
remember all of this as others that
wandered in your life forget
the person who held the sun
in the sky and paused the
rain and talked with words
that kept the gods away.

 

7/8/2026