Walk your fingers along the ridges of her skin
See how time sank its teeth
How the sun slapped its heat
And left her cold, unsettled, burning.
Stop, for a moment
Take off her earrings
Take off the music and weep
Step inside your mind and reach inside her heart
She knows what you think.
Her laugh had been sweeter,
The one that got away,
Her mind frame less weak
She was yours, then, now, and forever
She is not here. She is.
Comb out her hair and give her a kiss
Leave her unspoken
Lay her in dreams.