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Slip Away

I have not the words

For my lines, they have evaded me.

Sometimes I feel them slip

Under the horizon

Out of my eye line

Alive in the cracks

Like the edge of a mirror.

I imagine them, on the edge,

Their horizon, being lit by

The moon and the sun

Day and night, passes and scythed letters

I cannot remember, sink deep in the

Earth, my words, slip

In this fog.

 

I hope I can reach them soon,

Lit by the years, and the moon and sun,

My lost words under the horizon.

 

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Written by
rachel-burch
English
Published
Nov 20, 2015
Lines·Words
18·95
Notes

In 2013 I became seriously ill and I found writing poetry difficult.

This is about not being able to find the words.

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