Sewing Love
How to
Capture
Between pages
Or pixels
Or caught between
Stitches
Do memories catch
Between the threads?
Does love
Linger in the ink?
One can pray
In the silence
Where laughter once rang
Find the steady beat
Of a sewing machine
Where your heart used to beat
Trying to sew
Myself back together
If I just keep
Sewing
From the heart
I can bind
My heart up
Fit pieces together
Here is where it tore
When Elisif’s laugh was lost
Here when Phil’s light went out
And here, this big one
When my grandfather died
These old stitches are fraying
Starting to come undone
Here the slapdash job
From when Jackie put a gun to her head
Here from Steve being ripped away
So suddenly
This bit holds up well
For an eight year old’s
Handiwork
And here a spot needs darning
My heart is worn
It needs
Many a repair
But I have little time
For the careful stitching
Of so many holes
Yet they wont
Close
On their own
So I keep busy
With fabric patches
Copyright © Shoshana Batson | Year Posted 2014
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