She is funny, caring, generous, smart, witty, talented, loyal, charming, and absolutely gorgeous; she is the best friend I’ve ever had… my Mica...

Charming

Funny

Smart...

First soft, cool wind to hit my face.

After the heat has passed, how refreshing you are.

Lovely the scent of memories rushing in with the wind.

Longing, I have been for you to arrive....

Find me down the garden path, the path that built to carry us through the weeds. The one that was lit by the night sky/ and whispered promises of laughter and memories. The path the kids led the children to their clubhouse. That path I built over many years of changes.

Find me down the garden path. Now overgrown with vines and weeds. As I sit and silently cry over all who no longer have need for...

You are everything.

Everything that makes up this crazy life.

You are strength and weakness.

Beauty and plain.

Honest and deceitful.

Far from perfect, but you know that.

You wear your flaws upon your skin.

Like the sunlight from a cloudless blue sky.

You are giving more than take.

Unselfish to fault.

Love itself.

You are everything.

Never forget who you were and who you are becoming.

G...

This day was all. All I ever needed.

The culmination of a lifetime.

A lifetime of hopes and wishes cast up to the moon.

All at once came rushing toward me. Knocking me off of my feet.

Just the sight of you, winding me.

Reaching out to catch my breath.

Exhaled and gone.

This day was a thousand nights wound up.

Lived and remembered.

Loved and lost.

Would I change it?

Never....

Swirling smoke

Rising from the cigarette that rests between your long fingers.

Your nails painted a dark, deep red.

I notice they match your lips.

I am mesmerized.

I unabashedly stare at you.

Exhaling your day into the night sky.

Swirling smoke carrying with it your faults.

You look troubled and afraid.

But you conceal that well through a labored grin.

You wonder if anyone can see it.

I ...

Lying there with you, filled with an emptiness I didn’t know to be true. You are mine, you were mine. I grew you and let you go. Now you cry as the sound bounces off the wall and shoots directly into my heart. You’ve broken it over and over not knowing at all the loss I have felt. The sorrow that consumes me.

I miss you even though you are so close I reach out and lay my hand on your back to fee...

All in a golden afternoon, under the skies of cloudless blue. Falling in love with all that surrounded me. I shut my eyes tightly, trying like hell to hold onto this moment. Feeling the breeze coming off of Lake Michigan, the faint warmth of the sun and as I open my eyes the deep green of the earth around me, stuck in the middle of the concrete and history and architecture.

The golden afternoon ...

Door creaks open as I step onto the front porch step. The wind blowing through the house and filling with every memory. Sadness and joy fill my heart. It is bittersweet and in that moment I ask myself silently if I should go further.

I do. As I reach to allow myself into a place that used to be mine, my heart begins to break. With all the hope that filled that space and lined the walls with smil...