your appearance among us
was something
you had the goodswe, uninitiated, brought 
only our plain selves
you craved our wonderment
we idolized your cool competence
big ideas, leaps and boundsme? gobsmacked
once, forever
and especially
when word came down
that you wanted to see
everything I wrotenot used to being taken seriously,
I soared
over years, fascination
carried forward
like a slow weave
lives too disparate
for intricacy
destiny’s high art
still, now and then the thread …until you said
what you said
I took the unsubtle hint
not sure
you wanted me to disappear
forever, but
oh well