FATHERS DAY

You come back to life, once more.

Your memory screams inexorably,
throwing reminders from placards
and advertisement.

What's there to remember?
What's there to forget?

Your tombstone lies deserted, alone.

You are an indignity,
merely a shadow of the I you never were.

Your shadows are screaming inside me,
the missing I never felt,
which never existed.

Your heart exploded like a molotov-cocktail.
It was the drinks, always the drinks.

Your death could be predicted by the drinks,
still I had a hard time walking,
fumble, stumble, like you.

As years go by tears visit,
the false and the true.

And now you come back to life, once more.

Your memory has never been simple.

Blood-threads keep pulling me down,
nerve-cords shaking my ground.

In the shadow
that is not you
I will be alive
always.




Poetry by Daybreaker
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Written on 2005-11-14 at 00:54

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Zoya Zaidi
Wow! Day Breaker, What a heart-rending come-back-poem;
(I was missing you since morning today)...
"You come back to life, once more..."
This opening line itself steals my heart away...
The anguish of missing a resented loved one;
The ties of blood, of love...
Too strong to break...
Memory so painful & yet so precious...
Cannot be wished away...
This pendulum of love & hate...
This agony of fascination & remorse...
Never leaves you side...
Remains always with you...
The dilemma never dies...

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
You have risen like
Phoenix from the Ashes
AND IN MY EYES MY FRIEND...
Xxx (((hugs on father's day)))
2005-11-14


penfold18
There is so much pain in this mixed with the anger such a powerful piece of writing i will think of this for a long time.
2005-11-14