looking in the mirror
I catch a glimpse
of beauty, forgotten
when I am smiling at the lyrics
to a favorite song
forgetting for a half-second that you are gone
and my smile
reaches my eyes
again
and those crinkle lines
appear beside
my eyes
and the joy that lives, still
deep in my heart
peeks out
the sun
through the clouds
on a foggy day
I glimpse
the beauty that waits for me
on the other side of loss
when my heart
has healed enough
to see it
