Shrinking

Just feel so incredibly down,
I know logically it is reaction,
it has been so manic
so frantic, these last days
and now
it is time to adjust
and that larger than life
person, won't send me
flying messages,
I won't see her
voluminous clothes
and men's shoes
striding anywhere near me.
We won't share
the vicissitudes of life.
No-one there to share
our Paris adventures,
walking through Pakistan,
stealing ashtrays from a hotel
in Vietnam.
No teasing Dippy
and phoning a sex line
because we never realised
in our sheltered lives
they existed and laughing.
I can still see your plaits,
those dreadful checkered trousers,
the flowers in your hair.
Most of all it is a loss, a link
my world is shrinking
now you have gone.



Poetry by Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2013-08-24 at 19:38

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
This is marvelous! I am willing to believe what you say, and I'm thrilled by the way that you say it.
2013-08-28



It's never really a consolation when people say 'the dead are never really gone; they remain with us in memories.' Because, of course, they ARE gone. And it is right and proper to grieve and to retreat into that grief for a season--it's sort of a last act of love for those who were so much a part of our lives.

And how privileged I sometimes feel when another human being shares her/his deepest feeling with me in a work of art, such as this. I too have felt the void left by the passing of friends and somehow it makes it more bearable to know that grief is universal.
2013-08-25


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
Now you think out to your friend
You know each other so well
Both know what the other would
Be thinking
The silly , even daft advenchers
And yes miss advencherus you had
Together
The happy memorrys will live on and on
Your face will go red with happy embarrassment
'' We had happy good times my friend ''
'' Thank you '' '' fore being such a good friend ''
'' The very very best ''
Ken
2013-08-25


shells
Glad you are writing your grief, you obviously had a beautiful shared friendship which will always remain.
2013-08-25