A pad challenge response from Linda M Crate

whisper of your past
playing a game of solitaire
with a deck of twenty eight cards
is as wrong as me being here
without you,

i think of all the adventures we
should be having,
all the things we should be
or could be doing together;

always wanted you to be my sun
because i always knew i 
could be your moon—

but i guess
life had different plans
for us
than everything i wanted,

i thought i could be
your wife;
a beloved melody of a song
you could never 
resist—

turns out i am just a whisper
of your past that you keep
around to remember good times.
-linda m. crate