Hello everyone;
I did say "haphazardly" participating in the April PAD Challenge. This is why day one is being posted after day two.
Day 1 prompt of "write an optimistic poem"
Not Dead Yet, Me
Is it really such a tragedy
that my sentences are raggedy
words tread together by similarity?
The conversation is still defiantly
expressions of me.
Is it really such a travesty
that I wander aimlessly?
When I can travel through time so easily
…our life history
…a life lived outrageously.
Is it really such a disparity
that I have forgotten the melody
of your name? Still there’s some clarity….
I know the feelings of family
and passions intensity.
Is it really such an indignity
that something once familiar is now a novelty.
Or that simple tasks escape me.
I still dance to life’s jamboree
and sing majestically.
Is it really such a finality
even as I become more absentee?
There is plenty of life in my legacy.
Don’t bother writing my eulogy,
when there’s still time to create a memory.
©2024 Delaina Miller
For Jeremiah on his birthday
A Birthday Wish
For you
the song we sing,
to celebrate your birth,
is more a hymn
than a song of glee.
It’s a gift that death
cannot erase
your life
surviving
in our memories.
A bright sun
suspended
in a cold December sky,
the warmth of love
radiating from within.
We ice the cake
and blow the candles out
with a wish —
though our arms are empty
that our hearts remain full of you.
©Delaina J. Miller 2013
Wonderful memorial..
xxoo
Thank you!