joy

scenes flicker
                 a candle 
                   dancing
         in my head
     better things
            things to come
                       one day
           us
               holding hands
              laughing
the four of us
   three of us
               even
    five of us       family
           just two
         of us
           just        me
     in a train
        a plane
            the world
                  slipping
                          by

                          til
                          one
                          once
                          more