2 paying the price for 1

By lyttlejoe

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A series of poems and prose around caring for my best friend and wife. More

The Reason
To Nat
My Love's Enemy
The Thief of Time
Self Recrimination
Once Smitten
Remnants of Another Time
Soon
More Bitter Feelings
One Solution
The Night Caller
Just One More Day
Memories Redux
Fate's Destiny
SHE
The Longing
I Decline
OCD
So Many Yet So Few
How Long...?
Love's Wistful Refrain
Gone
Hello, Is Anybody Up There?
Forgotten
My Name
Once Upon a Moon
A Helpless Agony
A Repetitious Curse
Time's Cruel Dally
Food For Thought
So Rare
Acceptance
Remnants
Try Living the Theory
Confirmation
Only One Resolution Counts
Muffled Sobs
A Door Closes
Silence
No Surrender
It Just Doesn't Stop

Life's Callous Lottery

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By lyttlejoe

Who knew fate could be so cruel

what possible gain is there stealing

not only the contents of the mind's repository

but the heartless theft of the senses

What could be heard by that plundered psyche

to warrant gradually, frustratingly, shutting it down

Is there some danger in seeing... anything

that requires sight's debilitating theft


To slowly turn the tap of life down to an agonizing drip

where it is wasted away never to be recovered

is a cosmic atrocity, and to have to sit by watching

once a star in that same universe dissolve slowly

into an empty vessel just compounds the entire farce


Have faith, I'm told by those already blind

You are not forsaken, say those who cannot hear

The universe moves in strange ways,

is the sage advice of so called believers... until it's one of them


There no offense intended toward anyone in this rant, it  is a public flushing of personal inner rage, and when you are alone each day it is necessary for whatever sanity you can retain


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