Poetry list
reconstruction
the winter is so long
and spring just an
idea not even a
promise on the
surface the rebuild
looks good with a
smile and a
performance as
before yet inside
not even a wreckage
a strange unfamiliar
pervading intense
emptiness
the memories and
their signals promote
the tears and a
glimmering warmth
of all that is
lost
egged on by the kindness
or incomprehension
of others to get busy
be positive thankful
and all will be well
is not how things are
or ever can be
there is no recovery only
gradual change decay
into the oneness that
is lost only love
can reach out from
our nowhere and
retrieve a meaning
I have never possessed
but whose joy I glimpsed
beyond words
© Neil Thompson 2022