You were one of the greatest gifts in my life..........

Perhaps This Is The Way My Life Will End

PERHAPS THIS IS THE WAY MY LIFE WILL END
by Stuart Kestenbaum


I will find myself

walking down a hidden lane.


The spring rain

will have just ended


and I will smell the fertile earth.

I have never been


this present before.

My bones know


that I am home.

My teeth unclench.


Once I stared at a crystal bowl

dividing the light into


the unseen colors of the world.

Something is soaring


inside me or outside of me.

I can't tell which.