, NOW?

When my father returned home 

from the hospital and into hospice

his last words to me were:

Where’s my watch?

Strangely, he had time

on his mind.

Questions deepen when

we add now to the end of them.

They deepen and call forth

the present moment.

Today my father was cremated.

His body and his being 

are no longer

of this earth.

I wonder: Who am I 
without him, now?