i was going to send you a card with a long letter inside
that said the sky is okay here and
i saw someone today who reminds me of you and
also got yelled at,once and
smiled at a couple of times(: and
i made a new friend and
lost another and my dog is doing fine.
but cards end up under plastic refrigerator magnets
or taped to walls.
and i didn't want us taped to some wall.
what i really wanted
was to drive by your house and
see the light on
or sit with you under a tree
or walk besides you down a long path
when we didn't know where it was going
and didn't mind.
but i can't send you those things,
so instead,
i'm giving you this pocket-memory that
you can take with you anywhere.
you remember smiles and hugs
even when the person's not there
and if those smiles and hugs were words,
then you'd remember what they said.
this,is like that.
right now,
there are two people having one of our moments somewhere.
they're sitting there on top of a hill
or in a car or on a living room sofa,
not saying much at all,
but understanding the silent space.
"look," it says, or
"i'm here,"
or "i understand," or
"i think you're pretty okay!"(x
maybe they're holding hands,
even listening to their favorite song or
watching the same patch of sky.
so they've got geography(hydrosphere?haha),
backyard barbecues,
together whenever they want,
picket fences..but
