Aster

why aren't you talking to me?!
i could scream 
i just miss you

i do want you in my life!
i love you
i just 
can't 
hold all this up on my own.
if you don't want to help me carry this,

six words 
is really 
not enough 

And that was when
you laughed and I
laughed too 

and that was when 
we ran down the stairs
all trying to be fastest

and that was when
your smile shone in the glow of the sun

red 
orange 
yellow 
hidden behind the penciled lines. 

bright behind the dark, 
imposing 
tough 
lines. 

The tiny
little
caterpillar
sits in the shadows, 
leaves and branches becoming its haven, 
and listens.
And it hears everything:
the cricket's song,
the woodpecker's sharp tap,
the friends who disagree.