Le Bon Con

My shadow slipped away. I think it was quite a few months ago. What’s embarrassing is that I believe it happened in strong daylight. Now that I am thinking back upon the event, I recall a slight flicker of stony gray, disappearing through the trees away from the cold winter sun. The absence of your constant companionship was astonishingly vague and subtle. I did not care to fully realize, until even a few short hours ago that you had truly abondnend me. 

The knowledge that you are still somewhere in that sparse, dappled forest fills me with a dull ache. The sort that is not unlike the feeling of a bell’s clapper, several moments after pealing. It is a resonant tone, rich, deep and vast. I’m staying still. I’ll wait for you in solemnity, a safe home to come back to after your wild romping among the trees. I long for your soft, velvet hands to lie beneath mine. For your infinite expanse to envelop me, and for us to share each other once again.