REUNION

Be assured
now that I've returned
I missed you
......I missed you

Far too many a morning
and day and night
I have been where you are not
but you were not forgot

I recalled and missed
your oh so gentle touch
upon my rough and weathered hide
and even my sparse white hair
( what little is still there )

Your fragrance.....missed
ever changing
from day to day
or even hour to hour
like an ongoing play.

And the way you move
effortlessly through my world.
Your passages betrayed
by grass disturbed
or perhaps a slim frond left swaying.

Even your conversation
often hard to understand,
sometimes the merest whisper
other times a near roar.

But now at last I'm back
and I open my arms
( which seem so inadequet )
so as to embrace once more
the untamed forest wind.