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Ragnarok (disperses like smoke)

by Richard Paez

The last thing I had left
your face remembered
disperses like smoke:

above me and radiant
like a cool sun rising
spilling across
my periphery-horizon
illuminating
refracting

your face remembered:
below me and shining
like a captured moon
un(eclipse)able
lunate and luminary
your glow spreads
distributed by the atmosphere
and thinning

dispersing like smoke:
sometimes when the sky is still
I can hear your voice
in the microscopic steam
rising from the white lava
of my burning candle,
or in the molten-wax puddle
feel the soft-skin indention
just above your collar-bone-precipice,
or see, when the flame burns itself
deep into the shaft, in the glow
numinous through wax,
your cheek--the first part of you
I ever touched.

The last thing I had left
your face
disperses like smoke:

below me and mounting
a retrograde moon
all eclipsing
and in ascending, apocalyptic
tidewater rising
rending and rupturing

your face:
above me, exalted
a cool sun erupting
flaring anew
now sinking
ocean-boiling

dispersing like smoke:
now that the sky is still
all that remains
is the after-glow of Ragnarok
fading, numinous
like your cheek
the last part of you
I ever touched.

11/12/2004

Author's Note: {in the back off the side far away is a place where I hide where I stay tried to say tried to ask I needed to all alone by myself where were you? how could I ever think it’s funny how everything you swore would never change is different now just like you would always say we’ll make it through then my head fell apart and where were you? how could I ever think it’s funny how everything you swore would never change is different now like you said you and me make it through didn’t quite fell apart where the fuck were you?} {Staring at the sea Will she come? Is there hope for me After all is said and done Anything at any price All of this for you All the spoils of a wasted life All of this for you All the world has closed her eyes Tired faith all worn and thin For all we could have done And all that could have been Ocean pulls me close And whispers in my ear The destiny I’ve chose All becoming clear The currents have their say The time is drawing near Washes me away Makes me disappear I descend from grace In arms of undertow I will take my place In the great below} {I can still feel you-even so far away} nin

Posted on 11/12/2004
Copyright © 2024 Richard Paez

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Susan Q Tomas on 11/15/04 at 04:03 AM

You sure do miss someone. This made me very blue.

Posted by Sarah Graves on 11/17/04 at 01:34 AM

What an extremely emotional, and epical piece. Every line seems to draw sadness, as if someone is being injected with an IV. Nice work.

Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 01/14/05 at 05:28 PM

reading this triggers something deep... something fairly inexplicable in words... yet, in words you have spoken... could be a lost lover, could be a lost mother... could be a lost soul... haunting and beautiful (if you can imagine, which i think you can)... a tale woven in your classic poetic style... very good, richard... blessings...

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