My readership has dwindled lately
After many years this has disturbed me greatly
Are my lims getting boring
Is my ego showing
Trying hard to still be creative faithfully
This man never found the bed out of bounds,
his wife liked he explored ivory mounds.
Her dwindled assets age got,
he disliked, monk he was not,
ventured out in search of youthful new grounds.
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May 3, 2023
Syllable count : 10/10/7/7/10
Contest : A Funny Or Bawdy Limerick (HMS)
Sponsored by : Tania Kitchin
Throughout and over a period
of time
Our numbers may
have been cut taken and dwindled
Yet thankfully love increases
exponentialy upon every anniversary
We light a candle in your honour
As each year in passing is greeted with
and met with a new found deeper sense
of respect and loss
Never again will your voice to be heard
nor facial expression be seen
And still and though the pain remains
and grows ever steadily
If i close my eye's to dream of you
once more again i am finally
at one again with thee
And my tears are drowned out
only to become a distant memory
We have been up, down, sideways and phased
displaced by lonely nights aimed to raise
shunning suns of spun solitary pains.
Numerous strains of darkness dispensed from
fights ceaselessly warn my stuporous heart
that wrongs now death drag the good our love had.
Whenever the quiet is still
and I’m alone with silence,
I ache for an easing of our pain,
seek release of our twin aches
and pray a deep heart speak begins
to end our souls’ toils in foils opaque.
Whenever life is in motion
and time moves thru feels stolen,
I feel like a mockery as your wife,
as an anomaly to your true self
and my spirit sits with matrimony
fears and loneliness rife striped with limits.
I am good enough to live harmoniously as me
but I am an awkward bluff in this union of us.
I wish to no longer cry into tear damp pillows
while gaps clamp me to our shared bed’s edge.
Let our hearts stretch towards our once best middle
to find bye's that spare love further death dwindle.
... CayCay
August 24, 2019
Piece by piece, I was slowly betrayed..
All because you whittled, our love away.
Will my heart ever heal as I try to move on?
With a spurious smile, I pretend to be strong.
Haven't you hurt me enough, will it ever end?
Spreading calamity with every passing of a friend!
I may not have been perfect but, I never did to you..
All the lasciviousness you put our marriage through.
I am a good person, with a faithful heart.
Lord, vindicate me as I try to make a fresh start.
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