Left Behind

Your keys are on the counter

Your shoes are by the stairs

Your watch stopped working

It’s just- sitting there

Your hat and your jacket

Are hanging on the hook

You must have been reading

This dog eared book

Left Behind

Left Behind

Crosswords and reminders

Scattered all around

Left your glasses on the table

Flipped- upside down

Bookmarked with a letter

You wanted us to know

The body remembers

When the mind gets too old

Left Behind

Left Behind

I can see you driving

Snapping out a tune

Drumming on the steering wheel 

To some jazzy old groove

Shooting hoops in the driveway

Playing catch in the yard

Family is your legacy

You’re proud of who we are

Left Behind

Left Behind

Left Behind

Left Behind