Catharsis
Foundation.
Does writing letters help purge negative emotional feelings after a breakup?
Title:
Catharsis
(A man writes a letter to put with many others. He writes one each month to try to calm his mind, regarding breakup advice from a psychiatrist)
Thinking about you and the first day we wed
Spiritually
As I sit here
Under our once favourite tree
Writing to you again through poetry
In the form of a letter I'll save with the many others
So time won't forget us
I still find myself having a familiar feeling
Where originally
I couldn't sleep
Kept awake each night with the lone thought which beat like a heavy drum within
With such zeal
Does she still love me
My Lucy
For love has planted a seed
Then I always used to get a supernatural feeling like I'm being watched by someone who too
Like me has a special touch
A gift of second sight which lets them see too much
For whenever I closed my jaded blue eyes
I used to feel you there
Waiting like a new Lola Carmichael
Ready to judge
Behind my open eyelids
Slowly taking
All in
I sometimes used to hear your low breathing
And when the air turned suddenly colder
And my hair turned a little bit grayer as I got older
I always used to say aloud
May peace be with you
And God carry you
Whenever you need to be to renew and carry in your heart
This thought that our old love which I pray still binds us
And we will never be apart
Amen
And the sudden being watched sensations used to stop
So hopefully,
Wherever you are
You will forever feel satisfied, our relationship was so special
And something so magical
Still in the twilight hours of living
Survives
For it's now transcendental
For although we both once had to wrestle hard like Samson and Goliath with the Devil
Our old love still blooms like a lone red rose
So sentimental and vibrating with such vigour and bliss
And still follows me wherever my life
Goes
And will stand the test of time
Like something once painted by the legendary Michaelangelo
Goodnight and god blessed
My love
For I can feel you're here reading this
Forever yours
Terry
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Copyright © John DuffyASY | Year Posted 2025
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