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Melancholy


I sit freshly alone on my old armchair by that familiar door where many moments of my life have been spent. I can see glimpses of them all so clearly now Busy, bustling, boisterous. Sunshine smiles and laughter all around So many reasons to say thank you even on mundane everydays Contentment taken for granted… Continue reading Melancholy

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What Grief Isn’t


Grief isn’t always the sudden bursting of a water balloon.  It’s sometimes an invisible knife mercilessly stabbed into your heart,  that’s being twisted over and over,  with an intensity only you feel, but cannot reveal.  It leaves just a tiny pin prick in your heart  that allows leaden emotions to vaporise and leak out Every.… Continue reading What Grief Isn’t

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Companion


To tell you all that I've been throughall the while you saw me smilewould mean reliving this cruel pain twice. But trauma feels so trivial,when it comes down to a clinical narrationof a mere sequence of facts and figures, condensed into single digitsof days…weeks…years. It’s impossible to explain exactly,the scream of every moment,the cry of… Continue reading Companion

grief poetry · in memory

I Want You Back


8/10/24 I want you back.  It's a simple wish An uncomplicated craving  Neither treasures, nor followers   nor world dominance, nor the moon.  Just. You.  In the flesh; your hugs and your scent.  I want us back Who we used to be when we first began.   Not who we were at the end  Battling,… Continue reading I Want You Back

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Happy Thanksgiving


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#poetry · love

The ‘be’ in my longing…


Sometimes a person walks into a room and your heart beats different. It skips faster, your blood rushes, your pulse races, your breath speeds, and your heart starts to hammer with a kind of manic banging, like it's going to burst out of its cage any moment now. Attraction does that to you. (So do… Continue reading The ‘be’ in my longing…