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Open Poetry #51

Perspective

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2021-04-24 10:57 PM

Perspective

Was a sad day.
The funeral over, siblings gathered.
We picked out her headstone.

How many years under that shadow?
How many times being told
How much of a failure I was.
How many endless days I strove
To be something in her eyes,
Always to come up short.

The sun shadowed by clouds,
I appreciated the coolness on my skin.
It was over.

I was sad that
I would never see her again.
I was also relived
That I would never fail her again.
We all felt that.
Yet we sat in the cemetery
And spoke for hours,
Sending her forth from this world
With so much love,

I came home
With peace in my heart.
A peace I had never felt
In all my existence.
I was so excited,
I needed to share this.

You weren’t having it though.
You were too disappointed in me.
Apparently the grieving of my mother
Exceeded the window of time
You had allotted me for it.

Her chain was broken that day,
53 years as her failure.
Yet there you stood,
Ready in the shadows,
Demanding I pick up yours.

I wouldn’t.

Was a sad day,
To have to give up both my mother
And my supposed support structure.

But I thank you.
For at least now,
I’ve gained perspective.

Michael Anderson

4/24/2021

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

1 posted 2021-04-26 05:13 AM

Warm Embrace to you (((Michael)))...
You've put your heart upon the page.
I remember I felt like a child again
when I lost mine, & you'll never be the same.

I don't believe Time heals all things,
it just teaches us how to live with it.

Sky~

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