Adrift
Bereft
I'm shipwrecked without you
Broken and foundering
Can't let go
I won't let go
What remains is more
Than a keepsake
It's a lifetime together
Treasures that sparkle
Like the sunbeams
At noontide
Where children and dreams
Befriended
Splash and play
The boat to shore is slipping
From its mooring and I'm
But one grasp away from losing it
I must first breathe
Then summon a strength
To sail on
Such departure is agony
An anguish rending
My heart in two
I can give nothing but words
You can no longer hear
A touch you cannot feel
But I offer them
Without reserve
A declaration of love
A betiding of elegies that somehow
Must suffice as
Our ill-timed parting
A remnant of us
An ember of this love
Will burn
Like flares
And light up the sky
Into the unknown
For now I must go
My pilgrimage for shore
In pieces and alone
Remembering I've only
Lost you to your rest
Until a morning awakening
Oh, what solace
Adieu, my love
Sleep well
Oct 22, 2019
Oct 22, 2019 at 2:23 PM UTC
Adrift
Bereft
I'm shipwrecked without you
Broken and foundering
Can't let go
I won't let go
What remains is more
Than a keepsake
It's a lifetime together
Treasures that sparkle
Like the sunbeams
At noontide
Where children and dreams
Befriended
Splash and play
The boat to shore is slipping
From its mooring and I'm
But one grasp away from losing it
I must first breathe
Then summon a strength
To sail on
Such departure is agony
An anguish rending
My heart in two
I can give nothing but words
You can no longer hear
A touch you cannot feel
But I offer them
Without reserve
A declaration of love
A betiding of elegies that somehow
Must suffice as
Our ill-timed parting
A remnant of us
An ember of this love
Will burn
Like flares
And light up the sky
Into the unknown
For now I must go
My pilgrimage for shore
In pieces and alone
Remembering I've only
Lost you to your rest
Until a morning awakening
Oh, what solace
Adieu, my love
Sleep well
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