I used to think about you
more than I thought healthy
more than I could stand
as we no longer, were a pair

The wind blew outside
a fury unleashed, the impending storm
and I, with the collars on my coat
rolled up close about my neck, as if
you straightened and smoothed them
like you did once before

More than once, and never enough
readying me for the onslaught of the elements
the wind tearing at our patience
the longing of not being together
the desire like an empty vessel
never to be filled, never enough, it seemed

I looked back, the warmth of your smile
radiating out, as if to capture the cold
and the wind, and overcome it
to conquer it with the pleasantness,

The warmth of your embrace
the hesitation of your touch, the touch
of your lips on mine,
the feeling that we’d never part,