Sweetness of your lips

Honeycomb memories

The distant times

In our mind’s alley

Shadows in the wind

Before the sun leaves

Its post

Light fades

In a cloud

Your face

Sacred and silent

There I visit

Urgently

When life drifts

And hope catches me

Like a lover’s kiss

I repeat the voyage

To your ethereal self

But always return

to missing you

Maria Kranidis is a professor of English at Suffolk County Community College, New York. Her writing has appeared in Cabaret, State of the Art, Rio, Cassandra, Confrontation, Poetry Magazine, Best Poem, Apollo’s Lyre, Long Island Quarterly and Have a NYC : Collection of Short Stories, and Salt & Pepper & Silver Linings: Anthology of Stories, and ArLijo Journal.