The floor stretches before me black and white checkerboard tile feet glide soundlessly to the waltz in my head My arms arched as if partnered
Tag: Loss
The Heart of Winter
Originally published by the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective My heart a block of sculptured ice buried deep behind steel ribs hung with icicles offering dagger
Winter Holiday Writing Prompt Challenge: My Lost World/Dominic Festus Lekupie
Dear Nteye, I’ve been told to quieten, to forgo, to accept, and to be once again! But can I? With my world desolate, left in
#tbt Mementos
I keep you in a basket at the foot of my bed that I can grab quickly in case of fire or other emergency You
Tripped
I stumbled over our history didn’t mean to leave it on the floor where anyone could find it I skidded on the memory of
#tbt Loss is an Ocean
I stand on the shore of an ocean named loss where my eyes are always drawn to the horizon scanning encroaching fog for the outlines
#tbt I Say That I Lost You
I say that I lost you as though you were an umbrella that I carelessly left on the bus after the summer rain had stopped
#tbt Arrow
memory’s titanium tipped arrow penetrated my defenses embedded deep woke the past I keep behind tightly locked doors shaken and stirred salt water trails trace contours
#tbt Love’s Labors Lost (revisited)
she had moved many times in her life not unexpectedly some belongings became lost were left behind inadvertently or on purpose when they caused her
