inspired by Eileen's poem - see link below

            I miss
invisible touch
given without necessity
of physical connection,
made more pleasurable
when skin finds skin
or eyes meet eyes.

            I miss
way the wind stirs
when I see you smile
when I know you are happy
to have found me here,
when I recall warmth
you bring me.

            I miss
easy connection
of our thoughts without
interference time or distance
brings, that sense of being
more alive in presence
of one another.

            I miss
soul dancing with you
so close that we become
a single shooting star skipping
across the constellations
with one heart
in time.

                        *
                        But that is how I miss.
                        And what I miss.
                        Now I ask, Why is it
                        that I miss you so?

            I believe it is
            because, when you release love and let it come near,
            energy, essence of who you are,

            expands hope in me,
            explains without words things I’ll never understand,
            reminds me there is good to be found

            within me. You inspire
            me to seek force of my life, introduce it
            into a strange world suddenly new.

                        Why is it that I miss you so?

            I believe it is
            because my soul remembers what it was when you
            were here, because my soul’s forgotten

            it can choose to love
            with what vigor it has left instead of miss you,
            so that breath of my love might find you

            again, remind you
            of why it is you miss me so and recreate
            sacred space for love’s eternity.