i found photographs tonight
a year ago
you and i
graduation
the garden
filled with light
the pathways and plants perfectly pristine
kept the way you liked
you look so alive
but the garden is overgrown now
and the light doesn’t fall the way that it used to
it has been difficult to notice it
as the shift has been gradual
despite the abrupt nature of your leaving
you are no longer present here
and the house has been torn apart
overtaken with cobwebs
void and disrupt
it has become
i want you to come back. i do not know where i am.