You are here
Not here, but still here
like a meandering path or
a bend in the beach or
sun coming up over mountains.
Here
you are a lazy memory
relaxed in heaps of blankets on the couch
where your ragged soul settled in
at the end of an endless day.
Here
you are threads of memories
connecting chairs around a table
where your azure eyes went wide
where your straight toothed smile let loose
shouts of hilarity to loop around the room
where football and board games and
good food and failed food and
bottles and bottles of wine all
puddled around us.
The holidays are cleared from the table
sunlight drops off behind trees
Coming cold, don’t mind us
Darkness, leave us room
Snow go flirt with spring
You went where life will take you
And still you will always be
here
