RememberingYou (to Nick)

After time even

The most painful

Memories turn pleasant

It’s not the

Pain that becomes

Pleasant it’s its

Forgiveness the heart

Heals after time

Learning to love

Even that which

Brought you pain

LoveBike

Oh in love

I’m a child

On his first

Bike all wobbly

Steadied by another

Eventually pushed glide

For a bit

Then fall skinning

Hearts and elbows

I try again

Remembering the feeling

Of flying and

Fall many times

Eventually I will

Ride with freedom

Protecting my elbows

And my heart

GoodbyeHello

And oh damn

Just as we

Started the news

Came of goodbyes

But they weren’t

Ours they belong

To someone else

Apart we are

But now closer

Than together mourning

Your painful loss

I’m still here

Right here where

You left me

Say your goodbyes

Then come back

To your hello

SoulsGoodbye (for Fred)

The hardest goodbyes

Are those unsaid

Like being underwater

You never had

The chance because

He left too

Soon let your

Heart bleed now

For the dead

Can hear the

Souls silent weeping

Life’sPuddle (for Jay)

My dear boy

Your heart is

Breaking by loss

Everything begins and

Everything ends we

Often don’t splash

In the puddle

Of life thinking

That rain comes

But when it

Doesn’t and life

Dries up we

Cry grieve now

Knowing that love

Will fill your

Puddle and once

Again soon you’ll

Splash being silly