I must admit to feeling crazy

Impossible this journey

Carrying you at my side like

You're attached for life

Like you are real

Times when I've turned

As though to speak

(When sunsets overwhelmed my senses

And needed sharing)

Times when the grief choked

At my throat and I stood in terror

Wondering if the next breath would come

And I'd grip my arm

(Like it was you

Holding me reassuring)

What would you know-

Too far busy outpacing life

To stop and wonder if

Perhaps you exist some place

Other than of your own making