Someone brought up your name yesterday

Somewhere out of the blue

A sadness, an apparition

A conjuring? Of the ghost of you

Somehow it took all the air from the room

Took all the breath from my lungs

I could feel your warmth wrap around me

I could taste you on my tongue

That rip in reality quickly closed

I could breathe again

You didn’t linger — you were gone

And I am still ok within

Somehow I knew I would see you soon

These last couple days or so

I wasn’t surprised to see you drive by

I waved and I let you go

You looked like my farm boy, you didn’t see me

Was your pleasant mask firmly in place?

For just a brief moment we were side by side

Then gone — only empty space

Something in the orange tells me dear

That you still think about me all the time

I didn’t text, but I wrote you this poem

I’ll still be here

If ever you change your mind