One last time before you go

One last look with sigh of love

One last touch and we will know

One last love for all eternity.

My lips whisper, forever.

My hands reach, forever.

My eyes watch, forever.

My heart waits, my love, forever.

He turned to leave and, as he walked away, I began naming all of the things I loved about him one by one and sending them in thought to him. Ryee did the same. I could not bear to watch my husband of one night leave, so I walked slowly home. The words of the poem touched my heart. Maia had written it when she loved Ossy; how ironic that their love would pass, that I would feel such tenderness in a heart I thought cold as space itself! My sister's words gave silent voice to my heart. Ryee kept them also; we shared emotion no poem could express adequately.

-- Adia, Scientist 

This scene is from my Home Is Not Home novel, which I rewrote into Adia, Scientist because it was 'way too long. Soon, I'll be uploading Adia, Scientist here when it comes off Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.