An Aftereffect of The Living

It has been 

Quite some time

Since the world and I have 

Met

Under cover of cloud and twilight.

The cold is not important

An aftereffect of The Living.

It has been 

Quite some time 

Since I have been

To the underhang.

My absence was not for

Simple

Reasons

But my return was, indeed.

It has been

Quite some time

Since I have seen you smile 

And known that there was 

Nothing

Hiding

Behind it when I look at you.

It makes me so 

Unfathomably sad

That I can’t do more to make it

Real again.

So I accompany you

My star

Through the streets of the Hometown.

Wave out the window.

Laugh in our separate cars.

And you accompany me

An angel

Your angel?

To the underhang and watch

As the echoes bounce off the walls

Veracious and ethereal.

This is how it is

This is how it should be

This is how it will stay, I hope.

And it will get better 

One of these days.