11/1 "Mission"

Our friendship
lacks a mirror
into the soul;
empty hand,
empty mind,
empty feeling.
What's gone wrong?
A word I shouldn't use
in the story of our lives?
Gestures of magic
without the strength
to heal this mountain -
volcano, back to mountain
someday
at the edge of time.
I don't lack understanding -
in the yard,
looking up at the sunset
but I can't say goodbye.

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Ally F.V.