December

Cold winds bring recollections
winters past
good, bad, indifferent
friends here, friends now lost

Brisk air
thinking of desire
warm under quilts
skin against skin

Emptiness inside
wordlessness
no way to express
how you fit into my life

Lost
without you
and lost in you
needing words of comfort

The space is so hard to cross
chasms of trust
previous violations we project
onto those we now love

Only time heals
(if anything)
only love warms
if we give it a chance