After reading Eileen's post concerning the possibility of visitations...

How to obviate
this nagging
grief

this not wanting
to be
disconnected

from
the you
this here, paradise

beyond -
light beckons...
i still cling

to this you
to this
shore

to
laughter -- gurgle
of beloved voices...

embracing
evanescence seems
so final...this

this...
this...is...
me...not...wanting...

that final finality.

***

i send you
a warm
embrace