Short Widowers Poems

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I understand now
why widows
and widowers
let themselves
wither away

crossing the bridge
to choose joy
is a most
treacherous
journey



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on February 20, 2021...

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Widows and widowers
Still have Valentine's
Locked in a place
Saved in a time
Nothing to bare
Nothing to buy
Just memories
Of a sweet bye and bye
Alone, yet with someone
Is our Valentine
That someone in our heart
Until the end of time...

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with these old hands i held you and cared for you  ~  now i'm praying for you.



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Written March 29th 2019


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The Interval

I drank a city, the smells , the debts, 
the clouds of shutting doors and shuttered 
widows (and widowers)

 their new TV’S, the dream  drug 
that takes away your mind, 
your place: 

 some police look at you like your about
 to die, or something like that
 and I return to the interval ( a Beckett  play ?)

I wait for the clouds and the 
shuttered cast  to pass by...

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what do widowers feel each day
while waking up alone
what thoughts consume their minds
each night
obsessed with their love gone

i tell a truth not lightly heard
but truth it's nonetheless
there is a pain unworthy of
one's enemies confessed

there is a torture pure in pain
i'd curse on no one man
a daily readventure to
no soul would understand

albeit those who've felt this burn
I pray for them each one
protect them from this misery
in Jesus name the Son...

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