It’s been 365 days Of missing you

Of tears gathering In crowds Running down my cheeks And silence Pulsating in my ears

Time passes And memories of you No longer build Coalescing The way they once did

When you were here We’d oscilate between bickering And getting along

Between irritation And comraderie All the time Love the underlying element

I felt your absence most When the cherry blossoms bloomed

I half expected Your raucous whooping and senseless hollering As I passaged beneath the trees

But all spring The only sounds Were the dawn chorus

And children laughing And that hollow lungs heaving sound That often traverses my lips now There was no keening whoop

In the absence of your loudness I felt regret How had indulged in embarassment How had i been so unaware What a gift your loud shrieks had been

It’s been twelve months since i heard That high pitched grating noise And I miss it

Like I miss you