2007

The summer smell is here

It encompasses me, fills my lungs and

Reminds me of when I was a child-

No worries, only thoughts of the blue

Sky and what I'd wear to a

friend's party;

Now my head is only filled with you

Surrounded, encompassed

I leave pieces of me everywhere,

hoping

That one day when I lose my way

I can come back and collect it all;

My grief sits in a small box

On my bookshelf back home,

Happiness can be found on the

Walkways of the zoo,

He's got a necklace I made him,

She's been taking care of my plants,

And here, in my borrowed room,

The smell so familiar to me

From childhood summers

Fills my lungs.

I must leave that too,

Just as I left you.