Portal

Looking out the window at night, I watched two girls laughing and walking together and remembered someone I knew a long time ago. I am quiet as one of the girls steps into my garden and bends down to remove one solar light from the path. As she walks away I say, softly from behind the screen "Please put that back", after the startle she said, sounding like any teenage kid talking to mom "But it is sooo cool." I laugh. "Yes. It is, that is why I want it in my garden." Today, I am missing that night.