Time for Poetics in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ Bjorn is hosting and requests our poems reflect a journey we've taken ~ how it impacted us
Within these words her spirit thrives
a love that time indeed survives
I retrace the countless steps
the overwhelming need
to remember our long dance
~ to reflect, to feel, to see ~
the journey long through shadowed halls
where memories dim, where silence calls
where I held her in the crook of my arm
solo witness as life force ebbed
shallow breaths, tiny sips of air
in a deep sleep, the time had come
I spoke softly, trusting she might hear
find comfort in my voice
one tear escaped the corner of her eye
instinctively I touched it, lifted it to my face
blended it with my own
~ our journey ended ~