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seraphin
Senior Member

since 2000-09-24

Posts 1004
Michigan

0 posted 2006-08-13 12:13 PM

Not Ready For Good-bye

Your head rested soft upon pillow of satin,
Your arms crossed over suit freshly pressed.
I knelt beside you whispering your name
Golden curls weeping down length of black dress.

I remember brushing your cheek with finger,
And the longing rising, my own neap tide.
But I would not believe you were not coming home,
You were not gone yet, to myself I lied.

Hands took my shoulders and tried to raise me.
Tried to raise me, but it would not be done.
For I was rooted there next to my lovers casket.
Step away from me I told my son.

Leave me here with his shadow, on this satin pillow.
I am not done trying to help him to live.
Leave me here next to this body I so love.
There is so much more I have yet to give.

And I kissed your cheek now awash in my tears.
I called your name, but you just would not wake.
And I need you to tell me just how do I go on?
How do I stop giving what you no longer can take?

And I hurt so, Lord, my heart aches so badly.
My arms can still feel you, though you are not at my side.
And the nonsense I speak, I do mean as truth.
Why did you not take me the day that you died?

divine chaos
Senior Member

since 2006-07-09

Posts 617
dancing 'neath the moon

1 posted 2006-08-13 12:39 PM

ohhh honey .. this one brought tears and touched me so deeply
*hugs tight*
thank you for sharing so much of you

~*Sheli*~

By words the mind is winged
~Aristophanes~

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2006-08-13 12:54 PM

A very touching write...the stark sadness
of death is the silence...unbroken except
for our mourning of what was.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2006-08-13 05:41 PM

I know this scene well

it plays over and over in my mind

miscellanea
Member Elite

since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

4 posted 2006-08-13 06:17 PM

Seraphin,

"There is so much more I have to yet give." I'll never understand loss or death, but I do know this feeling. Keep writing, Sweet One. In your sharing, you are giving more than you'll ever know... Wish I could say something to cause the pain to go away.

miscellanea

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

5 posted 2006-08-14 01:35 PM

Such deep sad sorrow.I felt it flow through each word. My heart goes out to you if this be of your loss. martyjo

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

6 posted 2006-08-14 01:46 PM

Deeply felt...

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

Chanson
Senior Member

since 2000-08-19

Posts 1559
Up Creek w/Out Paddle

7 posted 2006-08-14 02:54 PM

Powerful~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

8 posted 2006-08-14 06:24 PM

Hugs...you go on because you have to...James

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