i looked
as always
to the immense hilltop sky
and saw a bruising
the word that hurts as you speak it
but i looked longer,
past the sad colors
and watched the sunset
take charge and play the clouds
and even through the sadness
in my heart
this
and this
and as i returned, this.
an old friend from my early days here
who had huge kindness in his heart,
todd, has passed.
we will all miss him.