How you surround me now
Like gusts and fits of hurricane winds
I smile at the thought of you
Then memory comes back that you are gone
The lights are dimmer
And the world is lesser in these moments
The anger returns with angry toddler ferocity
Followed by the flood of
The drama your departure evoked
Just one more hour, just one more day
To ask you the things I never did
And to say those things I never said
Denied and beyond my reach
The tempest ends with the same rush
With which it came
And my newfound calm is replaced
By the realization
I am just in the eye of the storm