In the Company of Your Memories

Candles lit indulgences rolled, one year later I sit by you.

A stillness. A silence. Gravity subject to defiance.

Motionless sucking the air a rainless tapestry overhead

Candles lit indulgences rolled, one year later I think of you.

Escaping lips rising from wicks abandoning matchsticks

Born out of pain only to leave shortly after. Seemingly bold unafraid, unstirred yet so quick to flee –

Candles lit indulgences rolled, one year later I finally see you.

Your still bedroom purposefully quiet Your unwinding an act of defiance

Fooled by being unbound insides set ablaze and you escape –

Nothing but wisps of cotton, dancing farewells, and then

A stillness. A silence. No trace at all. Just a ceasing of existence.

Candles melted, indulgences exhaled, one year later I begin to understand you.

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“Like smoke, I pushed out to be free; like smoke I too merely vanished –“

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