At The Party

At The Party

There was this sudden realization...
 My heart

immediately jumping into my throat

 searching everywhere

asking strangers where you were

but they did not know you...

Perhaps I did not know you

after all of this time?

You reappeared like magic

finding me in a panic

sobbing like an abandoned child

"I would never leave you."

"Don't you know that by now?"

Each day I have to believe all over again

as if preparing for a devastating loss

because I remember what it was like

to feel you slipping away 

Angela Minard 2015©