In every sense of the word

Is looking back

Like you’ve stumbled and you’re looking back

At the ‘thing’ that tripped you

Stopped you in your tracks and made you pause

For a moment and just ‘look back’

Where you’re from or who you used to be

She would say, He would say and you would say

And we would all laugh, Cry

Sometime one sometimes the other

Sometimes both in no particular order

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About how we lost a loved one

Bad timing, we would all agree

Had more to offer, we had more to give

To the soul that endured more pain than one

Unseen tears, proudly displayed smiles

These Endorphins are natural pain killers

Only if ‘recalling the past’ can

Bring back all its characters

On the condition that

The distance that separates

Can be measured in miles

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Thoughts and pent up emotions

A tickle of any of the 5

Senses what was, before it was gone

Memories of last moments shared

Switch off and invoke her soul

A whiff of what she wore

Her Kiss and the strawberry aftertaste

She hugged and held the waist

Dark locks swayed with the wind

Can you hear her salsa beat footsteps?

As she danced away