Does loss leave us the same way it greets us? Like eyelids that contract, forcing a moment of withheld beauty, of an unrealized, blank canvas, before suddenly retracting, revealing the brightest emerald irises a higher power could possibly create, one second, here the next, gone.
The dilemma of departing loss waxes and wanes in those eyes, like a changing of the tides, offering a frenzy of firing neurons that scatters the chemistry of a solitary mind, removing an addictive absence in favor of a purer presence those irises inject into my veins, effecting a high that fades in our shadows, only to reemerge in the beaming sunlight.