Looking back

is never as easy as forging ahead.

Our eyes looking onward

our stride in forward motion,

the landscape maintaining our gaze.

You arose so suddenly

along my starlit horizon

oh – those many years ago.

I didn’t see you coming then,

until in an instant

the immediacy of you,

upon me so sudden and

face to face.

I didn’t see you disappear

until I looked back

over our fleeting time together

and noticed there was

never invented,

Space for the both of us

wherever I stand.

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Editor: Renée Picard

Photo: Pixoto