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