Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
May 2019
Sharing blood, but nothing more,
   family slipped away

Into a memory locked in steel,
  old thoughts safely at bay

All contact denied, memory entombed,
  though close their bodies stay

Life journeys on, my back to the past
   —until my dying day

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Kurt Philip Behm
Written by
Kurt Philip Behm  kurtphilipbehm.com
(kurtphilipbehm.com)   
Please log in to view and add comments on poems