01.26.2005 - 1:55 p.m.

I have been gone.

I have been gone in snow tendrils skating across the highway, in vet's offices and old classrooms, looking for boxes for the roommate's packing, I have been to internet worlds, game system levels, and to the back of my closet, I have forgotten so, so much on the way.

I have had to remind myself that I know how to be happy. I have needed to uncurl my shoulders at regular intervals--this is the first step.

It helps that of all the places I've been gone, I can always come back to eyes the color of warm velvet. It helps to lose myself there, instead.

-stonebridge

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