Loss of Kindred Spirit

The dreary cold and gusting winds have settled over
as if to validate me.
Looking through the window
I see inside myself.

The glowing warmth of former days extinguished suddenly
by mere happenstance.
Grieving the incident
I wither in the void.

The beginning as unexpected as the ending,
Yet of such great power, influence and healing
With humor, kindness and charity,
Small moments and significant events
Its beauty beyond the average vision
So natural in form
Yet contained in boundaries
Never crossed
Though thoughts, nary action, entertained
Precept did not allow

I reach beyond this unexpected hollow to shed the torment
willing myself to forget.
Judged by naive eye
action and reaction ensued

Foreign words resonate until I shield my ears
just to silence them.
My insides wretch and
my body is of lead.

Now the remains, falsely manifest the authentic and the
achievement dissipates.
I am as before
as if it never was.
-- HR