Spending time alone watching an especially beautiful sunset, after years of having someone to share it with can be particularly hard. But if we focus on what we have, rather than what we have not, we will still see the beauty before us.

From Sir Walter Raleigh to Ezra Pound, poets have shaped America and given her words of pride.

(dark angel contributed to this acrostic poem - thank you, dear one)

Even normal day to day things become alien when you are lost inside yourself. The struggles to regain a sense of ourselves when we have long been part of another person is a test of our ability to navigate in a strange new world.