21.

NAPOWRIMO post number 3.

this is post 21 to this blog which is my favorite number :-)

Tonight you smiled.

I had forgotten the sound of your laughter.
the look of your face with lips reaching towards your ears
as you spoke with a light that the sun would envy,
you were luminous.

the fire danced across your face and smoke swirled,
the orange glow made you look warm again.
no longer were you the grey a sullen creature,
I wanted to laugh with you, I wanted to cry for you.

You never left me, though we had been apart
you're recent returns were melancholic.
you were broken, dismantled missing some vital piece,
but now you seemed whole again.

you had returned, I didn't know how much I missed you.

H.