I can remember with painful clarity, holding you against me. That hard and unforgiving asphalt beneath our feet. Praying to god or whomever would listen that it Would not be the last time I could feel you in my arms. All else faded away, blurred and burned in your blinding presence. Tunnel vision when I first spotted you, striding across the lot. My breath held in, heart failed a beat. I could never before have remembered seeing you as beautiful, perfect. I had only then truly realized what I'd missed these long forgotten years. Pictures never did you justice after all, nothing could capture your spirit. Can hold the beauty of your smile, but are forever lost without you there. They only tease me, never enough without your hand to hold mine and my rememberings. Shall trudge on through the day to day, darkness filling all my sight. Until her burning light, my eyes be filled, then truly start my life.