Returning

From Washington City, US with love...

Speeding through the dark city

crescent moon smiles down on us

numb

do not understand this wrenching departure

why...why...why...WHY!?

one moment I watch

curious and amazed by the unfolding of this

the Greatest Show

another moment

big wave of thoughts crashes over

and I slip

into the ocean of sorrows

Moving through the airport terminal

in a waking dream

with these dear dear friends

we reach the not-goodbye-but-toodle-oo place

I cry with one

I laugh with one

share a steady gaze with the other

'all will be well' he says

repeated like a mantra

Suspended between the endless sky and sea

I hold this tiny raft of words

close in my heart

and wonder at the meaning of the word 'soon'

as in

'Soon I will return home'