Monday, November 8, 2010

THE WIND CHIME TREE

NINE YEARS.

ONE WIND CHIME FOR EVER MOMENT MISSED.


I DIDN'T BOTHER COUNTING THEM THIS YEAR.

I ALREADY KNOW.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

KEEPSAKE

I FOUND IT TODAY.
IT WAS JUST...  THERE.

AND I HELD IT CLOSE.
KEPT IT IN MY POCKET.

SUCH A SIMPLE THING, REALLY.


BUT DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAD INSCRIBED ON THE BACK FOR ME?

LOVE.  ALWAYS AND FOREVER.

MAYBE IN OUR NEXT LIVES.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

EYES TELL ALL

SARAH FLIPS THROUGH AN OLD PHOTO ALBUM AND PAUSES
ON A PICTURE OF YOU AND I.

SHE SIGHS AND SAYS;
"I WISH I COULD'VE KNOWN YOU BACK THEN.  YOU KNOW, BEFORE-"

AND I THINK, I THINK, I KNOW WHAT SHE IS GOING TO SAY.  BEFORE
YOU DIED, BEFORE MY WORLD CAME TUMBLING DOWN.

BUT I WAS WRONG.

SARAH SAYS, "BEFORE THE LIGHT IN YOUR EYES FADED."


SHE TRACES MY EYES IN THE PICTURE AND LOOKS AT ME SADLY.

I GUESS I JUST NEVER REALIZED YOU COULD TELL I WAS BROKEN
JUST BY LOOKING AT ME.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

THE PERFECT DAY

REMEMBER WHEN WE DROVE TO THAT EMPTY FIELD
AND MADE LOVE ON AN OLD BLANKET?

WE LAY THERE
BARE-
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER,
TO THE ELEMENTS,
AND YOU REACHED OVER TO GRAB MY HAND
QUIETLY SLIPPING A RING ON MY FINGER
AND WHISPERING:

"forever, sweet girl?"




THAT, WAS THE PERFECT DAY.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

FROM HIM TO ME

YOUR MOTHER FOUND A BOX IN YOUR OLD ROOM
WITH MY NAME ON IT.
INSIDE- 
BITS AND PIECES OF OUR LIFE TOGETHER.
OUR LOVE,
OUR JOY,
AND A POEM YOU WROTE THAT YOU NEVER GAVE ME...

"we embrace
like the first two pieces of 
a jigsaw puzzle
whose arms and legs it seem 
reach into one another
and interlock so
that there is not even the tiniest breath of space
that would make you doubt it was me
and not one of the other 498
who compliment you so
and make sense of your shapes and colors"


DO YOU SEE?
 NOW, MY WORLD IS SENSELESS.

Friday, August 27, 2010

WINTER

WE USED TO TAKE LONG WALKS
TO WATCH THE SNOW FALL EACH MORNING
AND THE STARS FALL EACH NIGHT.


BUT WITHOUT YOU-
I AM MUCH TOO TIRED TO WALK HALFWAY THERE EACH MORNING,
OR TAKE THE LONG ROAD HOME EACH NIGHT.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

FALL AND FADE

YOU ARE WITH ME
ALWAYS.
YOU ARE WITH ME
AND I AM WITHOUT.

-FALL AND FADE-
FALL AND FADE
TO BLACK.

I HATE THEM-
WANT TO HATE THEM:
THE HAPPY COUPLES,
THE ROMANTIC MOVIES,
LONG WALKS,
STOLEN KISSES,

SEPARATION.

I BURN THE WORDS.
BURN THEM ALL.  BURN
UNTIL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT
BUT AIR AND ASH.



BOTH WILL FALL AND FADE
WITH ME.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

I WROTE YOUR NAME IN THE CLOUDS,
BUT THE SUN CLEARED IT AWAY.

I WROTE YOUR NAME IN THE SAND,
BUT THE TIDE CARRIED IT TO SEA.

I WROTE YOUR NAME IN MY HEART
WHERE IT WILL STAY



FOREVER.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

THE END

YOU ONCE ASKED ME HOW IT ALL ENDS.

YOU PONDER THE INEVITABLE.
I'VE LIVED IT.

I TELL YOU IT ENDS WITH GOODBYE, OF COURSE.
A LITTLE WHITE LIE. A GIFT OF HOPE.

OR MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, IT ENDS WITH BEAUTY.
NOT WITH A WHIMPER BUT WITH A BANG






PERHAPS, WITH A SIMPLE DREAM.  PERHAPS?

GOODNIGHT, SWEET GIRL.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

SCHEDULING ERROR

MOST DAYS I MANAGE
TO KEEP MYSELF BUSY,



TO NOT THINK TOO MUCH.

BUT TODAY I MISS THE WAY YOU KISSED ME

TOUCHED ME

 LOVED ME.