They arrive
Specter gaps
Remembrances of the lost
A selection of life
Partnerships that mattered
Passed-on temporal mates
They arrive
And take their place about us
Powerful wisps in ubiquitous spaces
Tugging sprites of love lost and dreams
Dreams realize
Remembrances
The first ones teach us the abiding
The means by which they remain
Never lost. Never gone.
Comfortable grief
Breezes brushing about us
Liken to the rush of wind upon acquiring the peak
Or the levitated hair on spooked necks
And then fears and spectacles become familiar burdens and we abide
Together
They arrive one by one
Gathering to accompany us along
Asking for mooring in our mourning
Twilight dwellers, they congregate
Upon us
Until we arrive at a time
When there is small room among them all
Left for living
For us
And we grow weary of it
Comfortable in it
The space in which
We arrive