One Step
I saw it coming for days, because there was a sudden fear
that I would never see him again, while I waited.
Then suddenly, the day was born like all the others.
But the world stopped and the fear came true.
All I had left were memories.
As if I watched the rivers dry and the mountains move,
the darkness approach in the middle of the day.
I fell off a cliff from what was, never 'to be' again.
Cruel death stole the words my heart longed to say.
A bird spoke for me in the empty graveyard.
When it seemed, too late to speak and too early to cry.
Powerless I stood, with yet another fear to ponder.
This aloneness inside that I would feel tomorrow.
I took one step in the snow, watched the clouds rush by.
Angry at the transformation that happens with changes in time.
I took another step, so that I wouldn't freeze in wells of grief.
With each step came warmth, as I heard an applause
from the branches of the trees in the wind that winter day.
This is how I saw the sun rise later, shining on that lawn
where flowers lie upon his grave and I thank God
for the gift of knowing him and who I have become.
Heidi Sands
Copyright © Heidi Sands | Year Posted 2016
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