atop a carved up
table on the
balcony

leans my lone
potted
plant

and i watch memories
weave between
its leaves

as though they
were live,

as we’re frozen
in time.

fate came
clawing

yet he evaded
its grasp

with a faith more moving than
the words chosen to
describe it,

while beneath skies that rolled
like jewel lined
meadows

he glanced up to find
remnants of
you

in that
never-ending blue.