What is Love, without
Yearning and missing?
Gratitude and Joy for what was?
Equanimity for what is?

A Place that carried these smiles and these memories
still does
keep them,
hold them amongst its sacred stash
of Lives and Passages,
and put a smile on our son’s face.

Well, I miss my roller blade king, and the father of my son, a man with many talents, complexities and simple way of honoring life.

5 years without you,
and this old photo
feels just like yesterday.

With boundless and timeless love
Spreading its wings to hug us all.

-Yasemin, Oct 2, 2019