Special Feature Collaborative Poem--By Graça Costa—Portugal and Arthur Turfa—United States

Reunion

By Graça Costa and Arthur Turfa

Dawn covered your absence

with a thick mist of pain.

Lost was I like a newborn bird

fallen from the nest.

Breathtaking the emptiness

overwhelming the need for warmth

causing me to pray for a miracle.

Before sunset I returned as

coolness crept through

the branches.

I called your name

at once you turned to me.

You were never

far from my mind.

I sought a place of

refuge for us.

Take my hand and let

me lead you through

the grove before the

moon rises above the trees.

By doing so we

create a brand new world

where absence becomes presence

and our smiles create

rainbows to enlighten the heavens.

We stand in brilliant light

never more to be separated

in an embrace that touches

our souls and our bodies.