August 1, 2024Poem

Today would have been our 35th anniversary.

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Today would have been our 35th anniversary.

It is easy to forget.

As easy to remember.

The loss of it is

More than its lack.

The push-me pull you,

This way and that movement of wonder.

A curtain

Both open and closed.

The tilt of the moon

The symmetry in a pattern

An ocean of stars

The shimmer of a sea

The glimmer of a candle.

The lightness of breath

As everything moves in sequence.

The rush of it

The flow of mutuality

The warmth of flushed cheeks

Heat of blood.

The taste of it on the skin.

The Knowing

Without reason

The knowledge

So easily grasped

Without need

For words or understanding.

The loss of it

Accepted as inevitable

When push comes to shove

It is a rock.

Even in the dying

There is the promise

Of a return.

An essence of truth

In its passing

Into the eternal.

A moment of certainty

The meaning of

Being,

Neither lost nor found.

It is love.