Checked my pockets 
looked under bed
even inside shoes
nary to be 
even retraced steps 
out in garden 
thinking that I’d
dropped it there 
not a trace 
where are you 
my little inspiration 
where’s your laughter 
and your eyes 
what was once 
a rain forest 
with its rainbow 
is now just 
an arid landscape 
dry and crumbling 

We can 
all use
more kindness 
not getting 
but given 
positive energy 
radiates it
attracts and
it defies 
it doesn’t 
defend or
defile but 
it defines 
be different 

Alone taught me 
how to be 
a friend of 
the would not 
of the world 
it taught me 
how to be 
without any other 
or fear or
doubt or worry 
alone taught me 
what others did 
that I didn’t 
understand or know 
that all along
alone is the 
path to happiness 

Just say goodbye 
for God’s sake 
just say it
you said it 
at the airport 
you said it 
in the car 
now say it 
about us too
you might not 
want to or
mean to but 
you have to 
because if you 
won’t I will 

I don’t 
not that 
I didn’t 
once once
but now 
that once 
is since 
I wonder 
when I 
did that 
I did
will I
do I
want to 
do again