A Lesson From Missing You –

“…she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we’re all here, waiting for her.” – Cecelia Ahern

 

Breathing in and with each rasping dry inhale I’m missing you
It burns down to the hollow of my soul.
Memories they flood in, a confusing mix. I thought I missed just you,
but I miss the many that are a part of me.
Each having a part to play, each having a part in me,
each deserving of my attention.
What will I do with these feelings? I shouldn’t,
long after only you.
I should enjoy the many
that have become a part in my life.
How can I miss only you and leave out the others
who have a part to play?
I must move on, pay my respects, but in the end
I know you’re only a part.
There yet remains a whole to be built from my life,
a whole song, a whole book,
not just a verse, or a chapter.
In this moment, I’ll breath a painful breath that it may give me
a lesson from missing you. 

Also published in Lifeasahuman

Also published in Broowaha

First published in Opinionsofeye.com

02172012

 

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Beginning of the End

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring 

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Translucent skin showing the paths of life that will cease to flow

Blue and gray replace the young countenance and own the deterioration

Halting the movements of grace, becoming a lame gait of an ambling fall

This is the prognostication of our demise and the fate’s without escape

What’s left when the seasons change and we’re left without shelter?

The things leave and nothing’s left but an empty mind

Where are the riches spent entertaining the needs of vanities clients

The evaporation leaving only the crumbling idols built by youth