Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Apr 2017
Echoes in ash
Sit here silent as masks
Staring right back
Through my hyperbole past

The fire, did warm me
The whiskey, did sew me
Thread, falls from my collapse
As whispers of mourning

Portraits of you, next
What you've become
One's strokes, so vivid
The other, rotund

Ashes to echos
I wonder if he knows
What, all,
He left behind

A fog of limbs
Eyes in mist
Is there,
After, life

Rocks; crack, stumble
In glass: of tumble
As red leather,
Made company

Ashes, the echoes
Of what was
Once, but
No more
For Nanu.

My grandfather was cremated last year. I imagine myself in the one red leather chair I always saw him seated in, reflecting on him now, up there, on the mantle.
Jack Savage
Written by
Jack Savage  26/Wolf Bay
(26/Wolf Bay)   
  951
     coqueta, Mack, Sjr1000, Ma Cherie, Beckon and 10 others
Please log in to view and add comments on poems