V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #25: Un-lived Lives
You were my unlived life…
Mere child, I looked in your
Oceanic eyes, rode the planes
Of your face with my fingertips
Through glass of picture frame
Kissed coolness of your lips there
And clung like drowning girl
To your voice, every intonation
Heard from farthest-afar.
I knew you in silhouetted profile and
Purposeful posture, stride…each gesture.
It was love, dire need, passion, unrequited
Longing…adoring obsession.
Imagination intense, pictorial, I would never
“Grow out of” this attachment, dislocated
Parallel life—nor traverse infeasible
Distance in time, miles, heart.
Impossible was only a technicality, my
Soul assured…you would have walked
Same streets as I, hand in hand, if you could
If there were not 32 years, a million miles
A sequestered world defining our boundaries.
At every crossroad, crisis, I reached for you
In dark labyrinth of hunger…found you there.
When you no longer occupied Island of Earth
Having sailed final voyage…restrictions
Dissolved, nothing left to encumber…you became
Mine, unfettered…gone-love-ghost forever…
My life-unlived preserved in amber.
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Wow – this is powerful. I love how you describe the child’s adoration, the imagining the other as walking the same streets, the overall tone of longing and loss. What a story told with such impact.
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Bless you heart, V.J.–thank you so much!! ❤ You offered the perfect prompt.
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My pleasure. Hope you join in again this week.
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Probably.
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Thank you!
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the melancholy. the deep sadness. the depth of love. felt. felt. felt.
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Thank you so much, Sissy–love you hugely<3
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hugs hugs hugs, sissy love! 😀
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BIG HUGS to YOU, Rosey ❤
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BIIIIG hugs back at youuuuu!:)
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❤
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