Frisson by Anita MacI cannot bind you here forever
with my anger
and my sadness
and my need.
I cannot even keep you here
for the rest of my days
just by missing you.
Still… I try.
The universe echoes my silent turmoil;
trembles with it at times.
I can only hope you feel some breeze of it…
wherever you’ve moved onto.
You are the hole my life shapes itself around,
so eager
and open
and willing.
I am still learning
and you are still gone
(somehow even further so than before).
10/20/2012 Author's Note: For Maya, with sorrow and acceptance ever growing.
Posted on 10/21/2012 Copyright © 2024 Anita Mac
Member Comments on this Poem |
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 10/21/12 at 03:00 AM God, do you know how to dig deep in the most profoundly moving possible. Flawless. |
Posted by George Hoerner on 10/21/12 at 12:28 PM "I am still learning
and you are still gone"
Excellent write. Most of us stop learning much earlier in life. |
Posted by Jody Pratt on 10/23/12 at 06:18 AM The imagery of the entire universe trembling yet the individual perhaps only feeling a breeze is to say the least, tremendous. |
Posted by Richard Vince on 10/23/12 at 02:04 PM oh love, how i wish my arms could reach across an ocean to give you an enormous hug. so moving, so raw. |
Posted by Laura Doom on 11/11/12 at 02:17 PM At once touching, and devastating; who wouldn't want to be the personification of Maya
and ease that fear of distance? |
Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 12/25/12 at 06:22 PM it is difficult to imagine anyone reading this poem and remaining disaffected. anyone who has ever loved anyone will not walk away from this ode, with a few tears but a slew. |
Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 02/21/13 at 10:52 PM how many ways can one say amazing? i have read this many times and i still don't know what else to say |
Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 02/24/13 at 09:13 PM A beautiful and sensitve poetic expression of mourning. This hits pretty close to home, but in a good way now, having lost so many friends and loved ones over the past ten yesrs. |
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