Poetry list
a year of tears
surprised
ashamed
and also
strangely
glad
yes each and every
day never before but
since your death
a cleft in my riven
heart pours out
a lava of hot burning
searing tears
not living in the
past but struggling
to face each new day
alone the sharing
of conjoined flesh
and spirit is so
overwhelming and deep
that so little seems
left now you have
gone strangely your
last hour your last
minute fills my every
moment hauntingly
taking me with you
from this world I
know and feel you
are with me perhaps
because here I no
longer belong more as a
spectator distant from
the fevered focus of the
immediate surface and
clamour I float displaced
and disconnected for my
hunger and need is with
you my breaking heart
cries out as it thunders
on that distant shore
where all is all
and all is
nothing and
beyond us
all
© Neil Thompson 2023