with the gentleness of your spirit
wholeheartedly recommitted
I must concede
'My Blue Wine Stirred' and shimmered
a pensive glistening lavender
as you began to sip at its swill
a soft warm light you shone
upon the darkest corners of
my still all too raw anguish
but I dare suspect that you couldn't
know this
I never fully comprehended just how much
I missed you
not til I saw your dear. kind face and heard your
precious voice so clearly in my ear
bonds of the many years' passing
were again so easily reestablished
and as certain personal admittances by you
were carefully explained
I tasted just a little salt of your own
subsequent pain
until my heart was able to embrace new wrappings
how so very clearly once again
I realized what a precious gem you have
always been to me
through eyes of old
I could not so clearly see
though I suspected certainly
that a good turn you would indeed
one day do me
a reminiscent praiser of you
I would all too happily become
to sing to you of your own remarkable
accomplishments
the powers of love that be
open such doors only at their own behest
which leads me to believe you and I we were
never strangers
but rather each others most cherished guest
thank you my choicest companion in spirit
for loving me thus..............
(February 14, 2014 615am)