Uninvited, my companion comes.

Uninvited, my companion comes.


It's not like I asked you to come. No.
Unexpected, yet even then you make me wait.
Invitations are seldom given or leave taken
For a better opportunity is wasted on the wanting.


And just like that you're gone. Again.
A wind whipped across the dunes. My despair taken.
But something else is lost. Like a reckoning of the light
As if keeping the ledger in balance is your only concern.


On the porch I keep a vigil. Watching as the Sycamore slowly fades.
Green to copper then brown. The cicadas are long gone, their
Song just a memory now. I'll keep looking for you. Where
Are you now? If I wait until dawn will it matter?