Today
I started
thinking about
the years to come
with the dreadful
uncertainty
that you may
or may not be
there—
I said to myself then:
I can stay happy
through the best and worst
because even in
your absence
the future I build
Is becoming stronger
because I
had
you

YOU ARE READING
Albeit flawed,
PuisiI was basking under the sun-the waves muffle the sound of my breathing; and I bury myself with cautionary confidence in the sand and with it the memory of your four faces. How can something lethal be life-restorative?