As long as you remain in my heart,
you are never gone. You are
the one who has brightened my days
always and in all ways.
I can never miss you.
You are never gone. You are
what a smile is to a bad day
always and in all ways.
I hold you here where my heart resides
deep inside, you are never gone.
You are the one that had become
a habit I couldn’t break. It would take
as long to purge you from that place
as it would take to traverse space
and come back here safe and sound. I have found
the seed you had planted continues to blossom.
No gloom befalls me. You enthrall me
as you always have, all ways and forever.
You are never gone, as long as I breathe.
I believe in the joy of you! It’s true.
As long as you remain.
© Walter J. Wojtanik – 2017
Poems of Garden Gnomes – Lingering