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Year One

In Loving Memory of David Padilla Jr.

Taken by the unforeseen.
I share my birth month with
(K)Crystal. 
My Cousin must be
feeling phantom parameters and
missing links. 
Zoom.
Thumbing through everything 
from past to present.
I miss your presence.
Life that filled the room
with laughter so loud.
A love stretched out.
So proud I known you.
I'd never change you.
Home real quiet, the silence
keep me company.
Love lonely too.
I wait even though 
spirituality was never my 
directive. 
Id never dream of
losing a sought after 
perspective.

My Father broke the silence.
He told me that you had to go.
That you're already gone.

I hear the air whistle blow.
The distance, it's everywhere
and haunts me with its stretch
expansive, blaring with
warbling trill.
Into my ears, attentively
listening because
the call cannot wait.
I refuse to miss the call.
I'll react before
August hesitates
again.

Shall not lose faith in the realm 
of the railed express ways.
I sometimes believe when the whistle
blares, you encompass the path I need. 
In the fever pitch I soak in 
the noisy roaming careless
Intersection.
I miss you. 
Never forget you.
I'm not baptized so if you see me
show me.
I'll reach up to you.
That's better than living, 
knowing that gladly I take
My dastardly beating.

My friend.
My dawg.
My missing month.
	  
	  Feb, 15, 1977
	  to
	  Aug, 9, 2023
	  
	  All the love I received,
          All the love for me.
          I sent to the memory.
	  Rest easy Padilla..

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