Dec 2012
I am a hollow vessel in the world
floating in space, alone,
in a universe without humans
There is no fear, merely enduring.
Sixty eight years of floating
today I feel something
loosening around my heart
just a small ache there
In the world of no one but me
I am locked out of anyone
I am without the spirits of the past
I am alone
Today is a first step towards
the place where the people are.
floating in space, alone,
in a universe without humans
There is no fear, merely enduring.
Sixty eight years of floating
today I feel something
loosening around my heart
just a small ache there
In the world of no one but me
I am locked out of anyone
I am without the spirits of the past
I am alone
Today is a first step towards
the place where the people are.
My sister died 53 years ago today and I feel nothing. I grieved for her, as I grieved for my parents when they died but I have no access to them, to my experience of them or to their love for me. This poem is a first step to opening my heart back up to love and letting them love me and me love them.
