Lucas at the Speed of Light (21/9/2015 - 9/11/2015) If, in stopping by, I were to ask you to give me what is best in us and if in giving me what is best, were to ask you to give nothing less or more than each particle of all love you possess, made manifest in eyes, in arms as you held me, if I were to ask you to love me knowing you were going to lose me, even if you were to going to lose me, and if you were to give me that, stretching your hearts so hard, despite pain, tender and sharp, stretching you far enough to follow me wherever it is I have gone, have had to go, then, wordless, I know. Knew you could. Did. Could grieve and give and give. How generous. How good. I asked, unspoken. Had to. Heard you answer. You showed me. I have known. However brief my visit, I have known love. Elena Alexander NYC