Lasting Affections

Wherever your feet have traveled,
Always know that my heart has sojourned also,
You have never spent a night alone,
That your name has not been upon my lips.

Dearest friend, miles are too long
Between love and finding and loss and losing,
How I would change the shape of this world,
If I could but find a lever long enough.

You have moved on through your life,
And I am noble enough to let you do so without me,
No shadow to fall upon your shoulder,
No silent shape slipping along the perimeter of your happiness.

I think of you more often than entirely necessary,
I dream of you incessantly,
I wake to a deeper sense of loss and missing,
For one I as yet hold dear.

Simply know this, dearest one,
That you are held as closely as ever,
Within a heart that has never learned to let go,
In adoration and deepest affection.

Should your thoughts ever turn to me,
I pray they will be gentle and recall all our laughter,
That even despite time and miles,
We may both still share a hidden smile.