Moment

Moment by moment

The background chatter 

softened to white noise

The room fell away

The tick-tock stopped

Still. 

We held one another 

as if there were 

nothing else to do

Moment passed moment

time melted away while

eternity blossomed

For the next several days

that fragrance held sway

There was much hugging 

that day and this was not that

no condolence given

no story told

no squeeze of elbow

no patting there there

no sighing

no crying

no tears

A thousand people came through 

Hundreds were in the room.

Dozens and dozens of times 

the single story retold.

The celebration was coming to a close

the cleanup had begun and

finally we took our time together

days later the blossom 

still bloomed

and I called her to find

I was not alone in that room

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For MP

DLW © 2015

June 22 2015