I Miss You Tonight

When the tall blue shadow

Of summer’s twilight

Sprawls 'neath the scrim of July’s lengthened day

And when it is swallowed

By misty-blue midnight

As history absorbs its ephemeral prey

When the dark like an ocean

Sweeps over the garden

Over the hills and the woodlot and dells

I hear the whisper

Of days unforgotten

Oh, how the echo of retrospect swells

And I miss you

When miles flaunt their far-ness

And memories their mercy

When I am torn by the powerful grip

Of longing and loving

Of wanting and waiting

And hating the moments that silently slip

Between farewell kisses

And last parting wishes

Between the cooling of lips on my cheek

I hold you close

Where nothing comes between us

Save for the tears as they silently speak

And I miss you

Below the dark edge of

The Far East horizon

Hovers the sun if the Lord wills its climb

Yonder the west

Waits to drink its returning

This is the force of intangible Time

As it swells in my being

In its giving and taking

A moment by moment discoursing of grace

I feel you near me

For love’s quiet Knowing

Wraps me in the beauty of memory’s embrace

But oh, I miss you

© Janet Martin~

It can be people, places, moments...
These are the things we miss in the beauty of memory's embrace~