2/15

I need direction, I need light, I need warmth, I need you. 
From you I found all this. Yet, is time to look hard for direction 
for light, for warmth, 

To allow memories of you guide. For now, it is just me and yet, 
I am no longer so frightened of that. For you, heart and soul, more,
left me well

2/14

Seated  quietly  on your bench under the large pine,

The sun settles in front of me.  Evening is cool and soft. 

I miss you. 

Four times now I have not had you near for this

A date you favored. The sun sinks red gold and

I miss you

Einstein spoke of the solitude painful in youth but 

delicious in age. Painful in loss, appreciated in time,

I miss you. 

2/13

A prayer: May your small traditions bring comfort. 

May the days, the evening be soft and warming to you, 

May the grief 

You know be by your side as a guest, not so much welcomed, 

But acknowledged for the manners it may have 

Hopefully, finally, developed. 

2/9

In the glow of a single flickering flame, 

how a bit of comfort comes, Like the single breath 

of a moment, 

how it allows the hour to come,

How we allow memory combined with love lost 

to refuge come.

2/3

In the ever hours I am now alone as never I knew alone.

In these ever hours I miss the physical of you, just, just

I miss you.

In these ever hours that meld loss and pain and future,

These ever hours that last forever and flash a second gone

I miss you.

In these ever hours where the shelter is thin at best,

I wish, ever so wish and yearn and hopefully strive on, 

Still missing you.

2/2

A candle lit for my Dear, near to my heart

A candle lit for those also who hurt 

from being apart

A candle lit for all walking this path 

wondering how, how, how does 

life again start.