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the average cost of a funeral is
$8,515

death is unaffordable for me

put me in  big oblong cardboard box

2 feet by 3 feet by 6 feet

packing list enclosed

fragile (not really)
      please handle with care

keep upright

       or

supine

send me to the
grande vide

postage due
 May 2023 LostinJapan
Jonathan
We chased a feeling
not a reality

We both wanted someone
So desperately
that we found each other

Even though no part of
us
worked

Our pieces didn’t fit together
so we pressed and jammed them
until they were stuck
and stayed that way
Until
we broke

-red flags
Missing all the 2 AM chats
about All the Things,
the this and thats.
You were always awake too.
Ready to share,
ready to care.
Ready to tell a story or two.
You drank in kindness,
with every black cup.
To the world's darkness,
you had blindness,
always... looking up.
Grandma, how can it be,
that you WERE?
How can you be,
not here with me?
You miss us all,
I am sure.
We miss you too.
In all the little things we do,
all the times we show how to care.
All those times...
You are there.
Never again...
Cannot be real.
My heart cannot begin,
To accept that deal.
I will laugh and cry and love,
with you.
Either here,
or above.
Do not forsake me,
in my Pagan ways.
Light my path,
these earthly days.
For to live, and laugh, and toil, and love,
with your whole heart,
I have heard...
is what makes a good life.
A good wife.
A soul well lived and learned.
But just in case,
Can you put in a good word?
For I cannot bear
to exisit in a world,
With you never again there.
The joining
of your soul to mine
You feel it
My heartbeat
Through your lips
My breath
Swirls
Like painting light
Across your body
Fingertips
Tracing bliss
Of knowing
You are mine
Of mixing
Blessing
With desire
Of sacred acts
Older than memory
Of feeling
Your soul
Blend and curl
Under your skin
Letting me in
Meet me
In the place
we both know
is Home
Where I
Belong to you
With names
I cannot remember
My aching heart
Longs to surrender
To everything
Without fear
Meet me here
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
just disappear

forever,

fall asleep and never wake up.


why can't i?
i see a psychiatrist in june .
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
forever
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
the hours we spend together
are simply
not enough
they never are
.
so believe me when i say,
forever is a long time

but i wouldnt mind


spending forever


with you
.
.
~ there's nothing like doing nothing with you
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
hands
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
your fingers fit perfectly intertwined with mine
your arms lay comfortably, so perfectly, on my back when
i lay comfortably, so perfectly on you.

you lips touch mine perfectly,
as you kiss me softly,

with your hands perfectly placed on the back on my head,
fingers through my hair.

you, my love
are
simply
perfect
perfect
in
every
single
way.

444
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
beautiful
 Sep 2022 LostinJapan
juno
i cant help but
glance at you.


even though we are
practically strangers,

part of me
still finds
comfort

in your blue eyes.
I think that I will take the time
To come up with a thrilling rhyme

If you could see me yesterday
You’d  know I’m not the same today

If I could win a golden prize
You’d see it shining in my eyes

The seaside is my spirit’s place
To step outside the rodent race.

I have a tale I want to tell
but rhyming will not do it well

te-dah te-dah te-dah te-dah
Pentameter’s unfailing law

Restricting laws I can’t abide
So I’ll set rhyming verse aside.
                               ljm
This started as an exercise and morphed into a complaint
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