I feel like
that one sigh
that won’t come
knowing that if
I happened to
then everything else
would be better
but now I
sit here thinking
like the dishrag
on the sink
alone and useless
damp and sour
once having been
Category: Start/End Relationships
LossVsWin
I’ve lost more
than I’ve won
but the losses
unlike the wins
taught me more
the wins well
like the winds
come and go
cooling the fire
that losses set
Betrayal
And now
and with
that and
now this
I can
say why
because before
when I
didn’t know
when or
where or
what I
certainly never
imagined whom
UnpackingHim
I was with him
for thirty-two years and
I’m just now learning
that my moving on
is much more arduous
than I ever expected
leaving things behind is
the easy part it’s
the unpacking of memories
it’s the sorting stacking
and even the storage
of such stuff that
I find most daunting
and so I go
on with this business
every minute every hour
every day every year
and I will someday
run out of time
or of these things
and either one is
completely fine by me
for this is simply
the cost of loving
someone for a lifetime
AfterYou
The subconscious always
allows the conscious
to go first
whenever we forgive
someone consciously our
subconscious hides in
the deepest corners
giggling and knowing
it will haunt
us when we
are most vulnerable
in our sleep
in time even
it when like
a bully learns
that its taunts
no longer upset
will move on
torturing someone else
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 