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
Thank You… Forever
I am very grateful
for the old friends
that have become
new friends.
I am very grateful
that the differences
we share, do not make
us indifferent to each other.
I am very grateful
for recent lessons
of humanity that I so humbly
needed to learn.
I am very grateful
to see me through the eyes
of others and to know I am not,
nor was, despised for being me.
I am very grateful
for all of these things,
and I want to send
my gratitude into the world.
I am very grateful
that because I have, others
will have a renewed faith
in their fellow beings.
I am very grateful
that the power of empathy
touches our lives
and reinstates trust.
I am very grateful
for all of you. As
you continue to be
so integral to my life.
Thank you… forever.
© Delaina Miller 2012
very touching..
xxoo
Thank you again 🙂