reflections

Have I told you lately
how much I love you?
Have I told you
how much I miss you?
Isn't it evident in the way
I breathe
How often I was just
remembering
to treasure each memory
as if it would keep
you alive somehow
the first strains of a
classical piece
the faint smell of
lingering smoke
"You know me, Naomi..."
you'd say
Hope you saved the last
dance for the same
ONE I know and love

This hollowness is
not empty
NO it hangs with
heavy emotion
thick clouds of tears
which fall into
the void below
with nothing to
dampen the sound
of thundering pain
flashes of memory
sometimes intense
are my constant
in this belly of grief

I cry out for comfort
relief from this
My Comforter, My God
I trust in you
You are my shelter
in this storm

"Answer me quickly, Oh Lord!
My spirit fails!
Hide not your face from me
lest I be like those who go
down to the pit

Let me hear in the morning
of your steadfast love
For in you I trust
Make me know the way
I should go
for to you I lift up my soul."
Psalms 143:7-8