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Without You

by Cherub Madden

Ocean waves twist around my feet ... a lariat of hardening concrete. Icy fingers reach across pale skin. Elusive. Swift. I’m pulled in. Buoyed by the vacancy inside, I tow my weathered dreams behind. Without an anchor or a place to tie, unmoored, I simply lie. Drifting carved out mannequin, in search of “might have been.” Injured birds should stay ashore, broken wings, like hearts, can’t soar. Reverie too stubborn to disperse, darkens clouds into sudden burst. Squalling screams take off windblown. Thunder stomps, while rains spits down. Aboutface turns the rising sun. Ebb and flow, with sway undone, whips the surf with turbulent blows. Rip current unexposed --lures with calm repose. Water waves a last good-bye, salted tears splash my reply. The deepest darkest blue, rolls on endless without you.

12/30/2010

Posted on 12/30/2010
Copyright © 2024 Cherub Madden

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Joe Cramer on 12/30/10 at 11:03 PM

... welcome to Pathetic.....

Posted by Peggie Eng on 01/04/11 at 12:00 AM

Beautiful and heartfelt...

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 01/04/11 at 04:48 PM

I am always amazed how someone's absence can spurn on such art as you've manifested here. A veritable feast for eyes gone awry to wean and gather back their twenty twenty.

Posted by Joan Serratelli on 03/06/21 at 01:54 AM

A beautiful read- glad I found it

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