You smell the same, a combination

of Old Spice and talcum powder, 

The fragrance I know but never remember

Weaving into my thoughts as I ponder.

Like the letters I wrote but never posted

Like the letters that returned “Address un-known” 

I am that person, that unknown girl

That I already have grieved but walks alone. 

Yes, she crawls through the window

On long dark nights, her face 

Is the face I see, the one I buried

And burned. I have no answers for her.

I mourn you just as you did when you left,

But no one is gone forever. Forever

Is a dirty word, clingy, hapless, I’d rather 

you give me “tomorrow”. Let me know how to live. 

  

Let me know how the beasts lived up

How you let them set themselves free

To live without a care, to let that feeling go

To tell that child in the window, she is home.