Notes About The Poem
3/21/2025 for Swimming in Grief Poetry Contest sponsored by Sara Jama
Unfinished Lives
When a life well lived has ended,
it leaves an incomprehensible hole.
How can we ever conceive of
the disappearance of a soul?
Yet, I think what's even sadder
is when the things that could have been
remain undone, never flowering,
finished before they could begin.
A new mother, with undying love,
how her heart is harshly torn
by the unfathomable tragedy
when her new baby is stillborn.
Untold words of a lifelong, faithful friend,
the words of passionate love
that can no longer be spoken
to a would-be lover up above.
The unattempted dreams of a man
afraid to try, only to himself, betray,
a little grief each day, waves on a rock,
slowly wearing those dreams away.
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