Separation

 
sad-ghost
 
I write with your pen

–curving my palm

–your art leaving its nib

–your dreams filling my head

–your pain curdling my heart…
 
 
 
My body rises with his coffee

charging beginnings–

his work ethic

–impelling me forward

his glasses

–bridging my nose

his passion

–igniting my soul…
 
 
My mind

is his
 
 
–remembering her.

Yearning for her,

tasting her cravings

a snack mix)

hearing her music

static

promising her compromise

*an oversight*

wanting her caress

to soothe

listening to her heel Taps

–dopplering away→

–and I rite→

I right.

©Karen Robiscoe

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I bring to you an arrow, whole, Use it, or break it, But if you choose to take it --Know-- With it also, I will go. © Karen Robiscoe @1992

4 Responses to “Separation”

  1. I really like this. The yearning, the wanting, the wondering if it is right or rite or write or wright.

    • thanks, Al. I have to say–it’s all 3. A ritual of assimilating death as part of life on a personal level, a subconscious wish to right things perceived as wrong, and a physical activity/emotional faucet.

      It’s about Shades, too. Being shaded by dead folk. 🙂

  2. I felt the pull, the pushback and the pull yet again…and I felt your hurt..