Snapshot

When she said she was going to leave
She my air gone?  How can I breathe?
Her answer …to run for escape
How do I protect her from this grave mistake
She seeks what is easier on the heart
But these are the times that set the strong apart

There exists not the words that I may speak
For with no breath I am weak
So I am silent
Yet my soul cannot keep quiet
It speaks of moments that touched it
It pleads for yesterdays echoes, securities blanket
Her clever antidotes to lifes’ quandaries
Her ability to navigate it’s stormy seas

It remembers her smile and kind words
The times when she soared among the birds
She swung her arms wide and twirled a circle
Euphoric dizziness drowned loneliness heckle
Portraits of that life painted vividly
Left behind as artifacts of history
For when she leaves  all I’ve got
Are These beautiful times  reduced to a
….Snapshot