STAY

S T A Y

YOU went away.

Leaving me here alone, even though

I begged, begging you to not go.

Watching your truck fades

into the haze that comes in tears

blurring my eyes, out of sight

out of mind

out of memory.

DADDY,

When I try to remember you
you're just slightly out of focus, the dust in the fields

at sunset, the flash of light on your teeth as you

smile, laughing as the dog runs this way

like a photograph is frozen in time

trembling in my clutched hand

as the physics defy

logic as you drive

over the event horizon

into my memory

I AM
lost here without you, 

life has become a series of unsolvable

math problems left on the chalkboard in your old

office, stacked paper drifts like the dust that

collects in the fields outside

I have almost forgotten the farmhouse

save that it was the last time I saw

you holding my hand

promising that you weren't

ever going away

that

after all this

you would

S T A Y