Tag: loss

• The Hat

  A moment suspended,
  transfixed in her mind 
  A moment, that instant, 
  time’s noose to rewind 
  
  How can you prevent 
  A quick tumble to death 
  An ascent of perfection 
  To her gasping breath 
  
  She’d never know why  
  Fate pulled her so low 
  Outdoing the most ragged 
  bone yard shop of her soul 
  
  To lose in an instant 
  the one you assume 
  Would forever inhabit 
  the woven heart of your loom 
  
  But this existential distress 
  doesn’t touch what remains
  The earth-shattering truth 
  that the quotidian slains
  
  That something so droll 
  as a last-minute piece 
  Could be the reason 
  she’s ten feet beneath  
  
  The world she once knew 
  on an intimate basis
  Ripped without feeling   
  as her absence replaces 
  
  The horror of knowing 
  it’s not a dream to retell
  But a hat that she reached for 
  Was how tragedy befell 

• Sarah

  We said she was crazy, but what did she know?
  Was she a prophet or something home-grown

  I think back for years and can still smell her hair
  The curve of her lips and her empty-eyed stare

  She’d hold my hand tight, just crossing the street
  As if it were the devil, we were off to meet

  There were gummy bears in her console and cookies in her purse
  Was it just me who carried this curse?

  I’d swear it was hormones or science that won
  But really it was all of us who carried that gun

  I’ll hold you and love you as all sisters do
  Even as you over the cuckoos nest flew

• Mad Girl’s Goodbye

  I locked myself in with a small blue key
  The room smelled of roses and melancholy
  (Once I was in, they wouldn’t set me free)
   
  I’m just waiting here until they miss me
  The curtains were lifeless and hung like death
  I locked myself in with a small blue key
   
  It’s all a mistake, just wait here and see
  Orange fires burned bright just over the hearth
  (Once I was in, they wouldn’t set me free)
   
  They stood from outside and watched by a tree
  My feet felt cold on the wet cement floor
  I locked myself in with a small blue key
   
  Silently asking, was it them or me?
  I banged and I banged on a tall wood door
  (Once I was in, they wouldn’t set me free)
   
  It’s true that I asked for this and much more
  You’ll see when I’m out, I’ll settle the score
  I locked myself in with a small blue key
  (Once I was in, they wouldn’t set me free)

• Chocolate Mousse Pie

  I didn’t say it then
  A mother I don’t know
  A life to live and grow
  Before the evening when

  I sat down in your chair
  For coffee and dessert
  Not knowing all the hurt
  My future soul would bear

  But I’ll live in that lie
  Be confidently coy
  To blissfully enjoy
  Your chocolate mousse pie

  Though so much time has passed
  And you still cross my mind
  A moment on rewind
  When I got up so fast

  With nowhere else to be
  And didn’t take the time
  A moment in its prime
  A look from you to me

  To thank you for the pie
  You didn’t have to make
  Whip, stir, cream and then bake
  Since you knew it was my

  Favorite thing to eat
  And while it didn’t last
  A love grown cold too fast
  I thank you for the treat