Even After You Have Gone Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Horses in the shadow of a cross
As it begins to rain-
And my parents are somewhere
(Maybe in Spain)
And you are somewhere.
Where are you? But don’t look
Behind us, my dear,
Because the waves have taken the
Evidence of our time together
Away-
We were together yesterday,
But not today-
How I long for you, I cannot say-
Because everything we knew about
Each other we have cast
Away- but there remains a Ferris
Wheel in my heart for you-
And it keeps a light for you even
After you have gone,
And reciprocates through the memories,
As it rains softly over the emptiness
You have left in my body
As you have gone- The rain continues
Whispering to the echoes of you
Rippling in my hidden lawn-
Where I lay naked waiting for you,
Expectantly, even after you have gone.