Where you linger

Life seems so delicate

It seems to fall away with the slightest touch

You look up at night and streaming stars collide with the atmosphere

Like tears sliding down mother earth’s supple cheek

They scatter in the wind into soot and dust

A charred remnant strikes the earth mutedly, in a grave of its own making, in the solitary desert

A pedestrian stone, smoldering and warm, one among many

Like a warm memory, buried in the past

Strangers frolic there, in your secret rooms, places once yours alone. Spaces where your soul was in full bloom

Gypsum and nostalgia, make up the walls of your past

Time crumbles away. It is spent like nickels collected over an entire summer, joyfully traded for a passing delight

A frozen treat in exchange for every warm Saturday of your life

You are where you linger. You and the assemblies in your mind. Where loved ones reside

In them, your hopes, and your dreams, you eagerly confide.