Caress
Caress the air and touch the light,
Smell the wind that’s by your side.
Quiet… Here comes the storm.
Silence. She feels so soft.
No heart is lonely tonight. The rain
Accompanies your broken heart.
The sun smiles at your delightful existence.
The leaves dance for your eyes,
And the grass whispers to your ears.
On the night that she left,
The sky was quiet. I thought I was alone.
I asked for mercy, but
Absolution would not come.
She said ‘maybe’ and I begged ‘stay.’
But the rain was quiet,
And the air was gone,
And the wind had not scent,
And I thought I was alone.
I stared at the window
Hoping she would return.
But the air came instead to caress
My broken soul.
And the rain stopped its silence,
And the leaves began to pour
When my tears started to flow; and I realized that I
Was not alone.
Someone is always there, I thought.
Not who I expected,
But what better company than the
Stillness of your cries and the calm of your soul?
It hurts to be without her,
But I love being with me. For the rain
Will always speak,
The air will always blow, and
The wind will always bring its fragrance of time and old.
Time to learn. Time to cope. Time to show
My bones that I can walk on my own.
©2012 Cassandra Huidobro
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