warm faces on cold days

so of late there has been....
and older friends have known you then
just shells of what we’ve felt and said
only shells of where we’ve thought and been
but to enforce upon the rest of us
a renewed bliss and tasteful lust
of old friends who knew and know you well
of the souls that linger still
and on and on
and more to come

and i quote

"something always takes the place of missing pieces you can fit and put together even though you know there’s something missing" (Beck)