LOVE & LOST

Photograph by AudreyLynne Waldbaum Castiglione

WALK WITH ME

By Michelle Longo-Bloom

Take me with you
Can I come along?
Let me be by your side
Together we will walk on
Take my hand
As one we will listen
To the sound of Fall breaking
Crackling;
As our feet press down on arid leaves
Walk with me
To see the weeping willows
Drench the meadow with their tears
Stay with me
As we settle down to rest
And watch each sun rise and set
Wake with me
To the smell of each morning’s dew
To skies of blue and gray, and yellow too;
Walk with me.

   Photograph by AudreyLynne Waldbaum Castiglione