August 4th, 2013: Gone

 Here I am today.

Standing with pride, and hope and joy. 

But where are you my dearest friend? 

Here I am today.

Smiling at the gratitude for sunny skies and good fortune. Painting compositions of elation. 

But where are you? 

Lessons learned and mind at ease. No troubled past, no contempt, just peace. 
How I long to share this chapter, but you won't be here now or here thereafter.

I wish you were here to share this life with me. The birds, the ocean, the earth and the tress. The mornings, the evenings, the starry night sky.

But you're gone now my love, and I still wonder why.