Beautiful!!!
trying to make sense
of existence
after someone leaves
is like tugging at shadows
as they shapeshift
across the ocean floor
—suddenly nothing
looks the same anymore.
until kindred souls
reach out & gently
stroke a broken heart
back to life
with sights & sounds
& shared experiences
a pre-traumatic mind
would never have
contemplated before.
RhymingTherapy—April 2021 (my photo of Rottnest Island) poem inspired by @Writerscreed Challenge “tugging at shadows”
I know #opposites is over but I couldn't stop myself from posting this.
Wind wants to take part in abstract challenge.
Mind Vacuums.
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My memory is fading
and I wonder when it ends,
Will I still remember you,
will I still have all my friends.
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Already there are vacuums;
empty holes in space,
And when I woke this morning,
I did not know your face.
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In a while I will be lost,
I'll be living in a shell,
There'll be no one that I know,
and my life will just be hell.
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You and I'll be strangers,
I'll be living on my own,
And I always will be lost,
and not find my way back home.
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So I am writing this to you,
before I go away,
And I don't know what I'll do,
when you're no longer in my day.
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I don't want us to be strangers,
but when my memory's gone,
When you're no more in my memory,
Will you still be living on.
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Ambrose Harte
Scattered Thoughts
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