Tuesday, December 30, 2025

#113

 Outside a star

the one that reminds me of you


on cold winter nights like this.


The one that guided you

 

through years of wandering


until you came back home to us to die.


You went to ground, you did…


When you found out, you hunkered down…


…Now you have become one with 


the earth you had restlessly paced 


all of your unsettled days…


I missed you during those long years of parting


you wandering, me rooted and lonely…


Now you’re here, and I miss you still.






Mark W. Ó Brien

30December2025

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