While Out Walking A Winding Road Poem by Susan Lacovara

I looked for you today
In the wooded trails
of twisting braided branches,
where the drying leaves, edges turned up,
rushed and rustled round my heels...

I passed the school yard
echoing with yesterday's youth...
and was sure I heard you hopscothching
through every thought in my head...

But it was not you...
And I was still me
Me...without you....

I looked for you today
in a puddle' s reflection
finding only a ripple
that mocked my sadness

If I methodically measured
the never ending walks around the block
and back....back home to me,
Me...without you...
How worn my soles...
and worn out, my soul
All this time spent looking for you
while out walking a winding road,
laced with the last flowers of summer
a spiteful reminder of being one...
Not two....

I looked for you today
At crossroads, street signs of what once was...
congested intersections of a town, too big
and a wish, too small....