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
Starting Over
Over a campfire we said goodbye
no choice to stay.
Over nothing we parted ways
because the hurt felt like everything.
Now here
we stand at time’s gate
friends again.
We discover what we missed
over Facebook posts
and carefully chosen lines
ready to hold on this time.
How we spent the hours we shared before
are elusive.
In place of memories
are the joys felt in your company.
The way the sound of your name lifted me,
your smile, your grace.
Most of all, your light
I preserved it in my heart —
a sweet jelly to spread over life’s crumbs.
For Lisa – because once we open our hearts to someone they never really leave.
Oh my dear sweet delaina. My heart is full. There is a smile on my face and you made me happy.
I am so glad! I hope your life is full of reasons to smile. It is nice that we can fill each other’s hearts with love.