The Journey Inward

The lasts are bittersweet, melancholy, nostalgic,
inducing memories, feelings, stories,
involving people and places and food,
tugging at my heartstrings, flooding my senses, bringing tears to my eyes.

They are about connection, community, collaboration,
holding me up and reducing me to tears,
leaving me with a powerful ache in my heart.

But it is an ache for which I am grateful,
grateful to have known, felt and experienced such love in my life,
that it aches to be apart.

I am humbled by the blessing of beauty in my life in the form of love.