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] Date Posted: 10:16:50 02/04/08 Mon  He’s Gone The sun now ending its long walk across the sky peeks again through the willow. It’s quiet now. She sits by the window looking at the garden and this aging man who once she knew as lover mate . . . now more like a child a lost one at that but still a man in form the man she loved for all these years who calls her Sally now, Sally . . . some girl he knew when he was young. Sally doesn’t live here and this is not his home in West Virginia. He keeps looking for his dog long dead . . . calling out “Scotty! Come here, boy.” And she sits and watches as he clips the branches of the small bush that sits alone at the back of the yard. She’s thinking how like branches his mind is being clipped away each day. Soon he’ll come through the door yelling and asking why she’s sitting in his house . . . . and where’s Sally? And the wedding pictures on the bureau stare back at him like strangers toasting ghosts. She sits by the window holding screams beneath her breath of frozen tears and weeps silent even as the fireflies begin their dance. He’s lost the man she loved locked in some forbidden space within his mind growing deeper and deeper away lost to all who called him friend and father and . . . Darling. “ I can’t find Scotty” he mumbles teary-eyed through the door and she cups his face in her tender hands trying to find him . . . somewhere. Night begins its close around them as he smiles and pats her hair and plants his small kiss upon her cheek . . . “ I love you, Sally.” My first published poem in the Poet’s Sanctuary “Splash of Verse 2007”~ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Christine [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:20:18 02/04/08 Mon Oh! How sadly exquisite! I can see why it was published and I thank you for sharing it's beauty with us! ~Hugs~ [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Wilopent [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:17:50 02/04/08 Mon Thank you, Christine, I had written this after our dear friends, who we've known and loved for over 30 yrs., spent the weekend with us. Linda explained that her husband was in the early stages of Alzheimers and my heart was breaking to think that the day might come when he wouldn't know her . . .or us, anymore. xoxo Wilopent [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: andy [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:19:00 02/04/08 Mon Wow, you know just coming into contact with your words makes me realize that we are lucky to have your here. Touching, endearing, and beautiful even in its sadness. thanks, andy [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: wilopent [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 07:13:09 02/06/08 Wed Thank you Andy. Your words mean alot to me and are always so encouraging. xoxo Wilopent [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |