You Remain

The moon whispers your name

On those starless nights

It feels like your face

Is fading away

From my days,

But then again

I hear your name breathed

Into everything

In between

Bleak and beautiful.

It reverberates

In my hollow chest

Like you are still determined

To furnish the hole

With your hope.

It dances within

The echoes of the wind

And pirouettes its way

Into every landscape

I have seen

Since your passing.

It claps in the thunder

Like your reminder

That frightening things

Don’t have to be my undoing.

It cascades in the rain,

Anointing away

The scars and the pain

That linger in your wake.

I hear it

In a canary’s song,

In the way

That time marches on.

I hear it in the harmony,

In the chaos,

And in the normalcy.

You are gone…

And yet,

You remain,

Because your name is ingrained

In everything

That sinks me to my knees,

And in everything

That brings me peace.