Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Poetry Journal Sept. 1, 2013

 

She needs to prove something to someone,

 only I don't know to whom,

 months after her surviving

 her life and death struggle,

after years of trying to work out 

what is right or wrong,

 this someone, somewhat remote, 

and she like the window

 of a husband gods tells her

 has been lost at sea,

 her thin fingers stretched out

 to touch the illusion

 she sees as him, 

aching for him to come back 

when it is likely he never will, 

perhaps relying on 

the kindness of Gods 

who recognized the intensity

 of her love, her need, 

the bigness of her heart, 

she, pleading perhaps 

for the immorality only love can give,

 perhaps with the help of gods, 

might give he and her

 both wings so they can fly 

beyond the boundaries of a world 

that keeps them apart,

 if only he would respond, 

reach out to touch her

 outstretched fingers.


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