The you that I know

The you that I know

Is realler than real

He lives in my heart

Which never feels apart

From yours

Here deep in this heart

I feel the essence of the soul

Whose spirit I know

So intimately

And then it is

As evening shadows grow

That it is my father’s face I see

With its impish grin

Smiling back at me

Across the enormous distance of time

And then the blossom of love

And forgiveness grows

Deeply inside my heart

Watered by all of these tears

As I dance and grieve

And realise how widely I had to stretch

To fully encompass over all of these years

The entire expanse and depth

Of the wilderness

He left

Deep inside me

With his passing