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RC Langill
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0 posted 2021-04-25 04:04 PM


    Left Behind

You took your love away from me,
Quietly,
Unwillingly.

Only a week before you had asked me
"When do we get to go home?"

You wanted to be back in your sewing room,
Planning out the items
You'd make for the Christmas bazaar.
I couldn't tell you
Why you were stuck in a hospital bed
And did not recognize our living room.

I didn't answer.
I could not tell you why.
And quietly, unwillingly,
You left me only
     memory.

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Member Rara Avis
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Mobile, AL
1 posted 2021-04-27 09:03 AM


There are a enough memories to fill several books, I'm sure. I didn't expect the part about already being home in the living room. It was quietly striking.

"I know this love will tear me to pieces
I know his hands will dig up my secrets"

Meg Myers


RC Langill
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since 2008-03-09
Posts 104

2 posted 2021-04-29 03:17 AM


Thank you for responding.

Memory is, at best, only a faint companion,
at worst, a searing confirmation of loss.

At some point, I'll remember her smiles without triggering the painful loss of never seeing another one.

Some day, maybe. No yet. Not now.

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