Te Extraño
after a lifetime of being alone
saying goodbye after having loved you
has redefined my walk with time’s solitude
it’s the little things that get me
your taunts of attention
grazed the embracing call for a
home without a past or future —
a love made up of simple terms
growing in the pasture of waxing care
like a child’s first bode of selfless trust
we grew as one
one digging like roots
the other mined the sky
we parted as one
one broken by fractions of light
the other loved with a goodbye
