Death of a Friend

To: Alex

Your eyes, your face, your smile I see

So perfect in my memory

Even your voice I hear

And it’s hard to believe

That in two seconds

You are no more

You were so young for

Life to fall short

You had plans, a hope, a future

And then all at once all this-

No longer

I can’t help but try and

Think about

The sort of place that

You are now

And how in spirit you never die

But live on forever

In moments of soberness

As quietly my heart reflects

The truth of your being

In the timelessness of memory

Your essence

So close to me

Will always be felt. 

Heartbeat

She danced inside the pulsing

Of his beating heart

Stopping in the spaces

Before a breath is taken

Before a word is spoken

Where stillness can be felt

There she watched as silence

Swayed around the instant

 Our eyes met

And every hope unexpressed

Caught up in the moment

Released itself

I can taste your heartbeat

I can see the sound

That brought feeling into being

That brought color to my dance

With every small vibration

Carried from my heart

A new path is born

From thought to realization

What I am in essence

Forever lives

Inside the instant

Where stillness took a step