you said, we've got a
lot of things to talk about before we
make it home
and then you walked
onward
and eventually I did
also, but
I must've stood there for an
hour before I could scrounge together
bits and pieces
of your body and
find beauty in it's creases
and where your neck meets
your shoulders
Surrounded by a thousand boulders,
yet-
not one as jagged as you.