LISA

I miss your intellectual
take on things.
Your brilliant responses
to my lost questions
and absent answers.

I miss your wit
punctuated by words
I haven’t looked up in the dictionary.
I feel like I am living life
while you are lying down.

In between our last talk
and this chapter,
I have had intense hurts,
events which have
ripped at my heart

and sometimes
followed by happiness.
 I want to share these things with you
and hear thoughts that never
would have crossed my mind.

I miss you terribly.
Our talks left me sad,
 joyous and pensive.
I understand your time and place
because I have been there

when all I knew to do
was lie down.

January 2025