You think you're so clever

sneaking up on me like that!

Hiding in my memories.

Waiting for the perfect time

to spring to life.

How could you know

the timing couldn't have been

more perfect?

Or that you would cause

so much trouble!

That you would breathe life

into a dark and dreary

Spirit.

For how long?

A day?

A lifetime?

Who knows.

Who cares.

You are here now.

Inflating my heart.

Tickling my soul

with your words.

You have coaxed my fingers

to once again pick up a pen!

To push aside the bleak words

and inscribe those so filled with promise.

And if I blink and you are gone....

I dare not blink!!