Do not follow

Should I depart early, do not follow.

Stay where you are and enjoy what you are

With whoever you're with, even if that's not me.

But do not think I am not there.

Trigger points surround you like emotional landmines

Ready to spill love as they're depressed.

Look up.

There I am in the plumpness of white clouds

On a searing blue sky day.

Hear that?

Little birds are my song to you

With the steady

Whomp-whomp of the pigeon's wing overhead.

Feel the feather as it drifts down from above,

And tickles you,

Like a caress.

Know that I reach for you still.

Taste the sweetness of the home-made

And the love of past provision in rich meals,

Prepared to please.

Crumbs from a cake; the hearty warmth of a roast dinner.

The soft scent of honeysuckle and roses drifts,

Their drowsy blooms bobbing as breeze brushes them,

Sending smells divine as reminders of past walks

And murmured conversations

And the laughs of shared joy.

There is no reason for you to miss me.

Just sense me.

I am there.

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