The potent words slipped off
her tongue
Soon dancing through my ears
My body tightened, locking
in agony while
My sister and brother both
cringed in sorrow.
The day we heard those words
Was the day we lost part of
our world.
Now on our way to say
goodbye
To the Man who raised us so
One moment led to the next
Soon to a memory I will
never forget.
Laying so hopeless
To be a man once of
strength, so weak.
To tell you how it feels
Could never be obtained.
There was much to say, yet
nothing sputtered
Just mutters, and moans.
His hand was cold and dry as
I grasped it one last time
He could hear me, but could
not speak.
“I forgive you daddy, I love
you so much”
He lifted his hand, towards my
face
Reaching but not knowing
where
I bent over and embraced him
I felt the beat of his
heart, following its rhythm
Slow and steady, but faint
I took all I could
Reminisced the last moments,
making them last
He relived his tension
His fight was over, finally at
ease
He left a world of pain
And now he has started
living
Free to fly, free of
temptation
Drifting through the clouds
No more sorrow, now a new
man.
The Day he started living,
was the day I started breathing
So much reckoning in past
days
So much damage
To know he is resting,
Watching from above.
Is enough of a memory
To free not only him
But me.
i this poem it was very touching but i wouldn’t have made there be so many lines after and now he started living because that is a great line and i feel like continuing it for as long as you did really takes away from that line
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ReplyDeleteI love the ending
I like line 27
I like how you streached out the poem
Rand Hillyer
It is a great poem and I like the length and what you ended it with relating back that you actually have come out of your sorrow and it really gives a sense of the pain of the pain of loss. - Haiden Sloan
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