It does not hurt as much that we're apart.
Those vows of love we often did repeat

Still hold. It's just this steady silence
is so singular and any sort of solace

from your arms the faintest feeling.
Your voice, even your face is fading

fast as every year between us mounts
the gap. There've been no man hunts

on my part, content to sleep alone
on both sides of the bed. Arcane

this ritual like dusting off your photo
and singing in the sabbath, obligato. 

18 thoughts on “How things are now”

1. So perfectly done, Laura–I love the flow, and the way grief changes to acceptance, but doesn’t entirely go away. “and singing in the sabbath, obligato.” 💙

   1. thank you Merril – I did feel the need for some enjambment to overcome the halting between the couplets

      1. You’re welcome, Laura.
         I felt the same need in mine.

2. Nice one

   much love

   1. ❤

3. “Infused” is the word I would use to describe how you put the feelings into the verse…little by little, very subtly, as she dusts off the photo….

   Really very well done.

   1. your feedback is so comprehensively succinct – thank you – I always appreciate your words

4. Time passages…everything is the same, yet different. (K)

   1. spot on!

5. A perfect example of how it’s done, Laura, so heartfelt.

   1. thank you Kim – this style suits my tastes – perfect rhymes make me feel uncomfortable!

6. Laura, old loves do ghost and wander away. Now I have to consciously re-call him.

   Thanks again for the challenging prompt.

   1. and time heals the losses in the strangest ways – thanks for joining in, Li

      1. ❤

7. Very well done. 👏🏾👏🏾

   1. many thanks

8. Lots of emotion squeezed into this, great rhymes and killer last lines this ritual like dusting off your photo
   and singing in the sabbath, obligato….awesome!

   1. thank you for such thoughtful feedback

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