Love letter # 158

I had no idea I would miss you like this. Quietly, deeply. With a palpable wrench. Not painful, per se, but undeniable.

At odd moments, scattered, I feel as though I still walk your streets, still hear your language; and I ache to spend another hour on your shore.

We did not know each other long. Rather, intensely, like an explosion. Yet still I have a hook in me. Impelling me gently, with delicate tension.

It could so easily not have been, and probably never will again, but, like the comet passing close, you sprinkled your space dust all over me.

Now, as we wheel once more into our separate universes, I carry an atom of you in my heart…to replace the part of me that stayed behind with you.