Navigating by the stars on your back

Who, other than by name (because that's an easy account), is the person you want to ask just one more question? I know you probably wouldn't stop at one. Who is it that you wish would put their hand to your shoulder again?

Big silences are often difficult to navigate and it's hard to fathom - maybe an instant here or there - just how immense they can be. I know in a practical sense, we all make our own leviathans but that doesn't encompass what it means to really miss someone who is lost to you in this world.

I want to understand why a being has left a print in your heart. I want to know you this way, because a simple covert of words - written or spoken reveals only a little about love and how its mark became deeply carved into your spine.

Some folks may mistakenly think it is a wound, or that it is just some form of dead-reckoning, but I want to know it because more than a glimpse of how you look in any evening or any morning, is how you are made to be here.

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"You take the wheel one more time like I showed you
We've reached the strait once even I could not go through"
~ From: "We Learned the Sea", Dar Williams