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INSTANT AND FOREVER
The day like no other began much as any other;
We slept in, forsaking church;
Instead we drove into the cathedral of the world.
The road, a twisting vein across the tangled hills,
Bled us out at last along the wounded coast,
Torn by restless ocean swells.
Greeted by the bluest blue a day could be,
We almost forgot that obscene shadow,
A bastard blot upon the x-ray sheet.
We ate at a small sea side cafe;
Then wandered down the coast and inland,
Arriving home as the light was ending.
She wrote a letter and though the world
Had darkened insisted on its mailing.
It was the last time we knew each other;
In the car at the postal drop,
The time bomb in her brain quit ticking;
A burst of laser light erupted--
Pooled to black,
Drained to nothing.
In the aloneness
Of that moment
I lie stranded;
Yet I'm grateful
I was not a witness
To the terror,
And the wonder,
Of that instant.
Poetry by ethom
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Written on 2008-03-22 at 06:03
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Instant and Forever
INSTANT AND FOREVER
The day like no other began much as any other;
We slept in, forsaking church;
Instead we drove into the cathedral of the world.
The road, a twisting vein across the tangled hills,
Bled us out at last along the wounded coast,
Torn by restless ocean swells.
Greeted by the bluest blue a day could be,
We almost forgot that obscene shadow,
A bastard blot upon the x-ray sheet.
We ate at a small sea side cafe;
Then wandered down the coast and inland,
Arriving home as the light was ending.
She wrote a letter and though the world
Had darkened insisted on its mailing.
It was the last time we knew each other;
In the car at the postal drop,
The time bomb in her brain quit ticking;
A burst of laser light erupted--
Pooled to black,
Drained to nothing.
In the aloneness
Of that moment
I lie stranded;
Yet I'm grateful
I was not a witness
To the terror,
And the wonder,
Of that instant.
Poetry by ethom
Read 513 times
Written on 2008-03-22 at 06:03
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