Ever since you have left I have had to reconstruct the story of a river from fine, fertile alluvium. A river i'd thought wouldn't end, keep providing meaning, energy fertility and flow. Dried up. I'm having to put myself in context of our history. To other people. You are the one golden thread that explains my existence, my experience that core which runs through my being that is all you have now become from a person of breath and flesh. You now live in the history that i am responsible for reconstructing. Brick by brick you are now legend and our life together is only footprints in wet cement permanence in my lonely heart.
Mostly I brush life off my shoulder when it falls gently from a tree, or when it grows from my shirt like lint. Mostly i sigh it away like a laugh from an unfounded joke or a waft of extra air in speech. Except sometimes.