In the distance

One ray of sunlight
I found as a hidden attachment
To one of your first emails
I did not know I still had it
I held it in my hand
Wondering where you are right now
It made me smile, for a second,
But, as sunlight does, it moved on
I watched it race to the horizon,
Just like your whimsical gaze did once.
My new path in life beckoned,
I could not risk looking back again,
So I let it,
And you -
Set peacefully in the distance
While a solitary tear drop
Jumped from my cheek
And caught a final colorful glimpse
Of that blissful kaleidoscope
We once were.