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ANOTHER EMPTY HOLE TO FILL (12-12-03, Galveston Island, Texas)
so strange that i
can feel so blue
beneath this gray
december sky
two colors
not so much alike
in definition
truth and sight
yet somehow still
the same
in their relation
to my present
mood and emotions
they compliment
each other
at least it seems
to me
in their odd
equation
when it
comes to pain
some sudden
juxtaposition occurs
in the mood created
between this
gloomy weather
and my sullen
recently broken heart
like some glacial
calving
deep within
my still aching
unseen
wounded psyche
intensified here now
stepped up
an icy notch
or two
from this frigid
atmosphere
of over clouded
freshly injured
senseless
reason
that lingers
on my senses
and freezes up
my thinking
like the longest
coldest
lightless weeks
of winter
some treason
in the missing
spark
of life force
less than leaving
in the wake
of all those feelings
which we once had
and shared
that flowed
so pure and wild
in our blood
that raced and fed
our hungry hearts
and bones
yet even then
still seemed
to leave us
always wanting more
but something
seemed amiss
as summers season
passed
into this now
still falling
fallen fall
leaving me feeling
so depleted
encased neck deep
in this still wet
ice cold defeat
of concrete mind
alone
which eventually
hardened into stone
from this treason
to myself
which i created
over time
so blind this sense
of hopelessness
so deep
this open wound
which i inflicted
within myself
upon my life
yet from whence
back then
in spirit heart
in life and mind
the living essence of
our now abandoned
vanished love
seemed so perfect
at the time
as did indeed
all that which we
once felt
and knew
as ours
and ours alone
so sacred
strong
so deeply
felt
so genuine
now only seems
so desperately lost
so hopelessly
forever gone
still i am here
yes here i am
left by myself
alone
once more
again
with only this empty
yearning hole
of seemingly
immeasurable loss
still stuck
somewhere deep
within my soul
for me
and no one
else
to try
to fix and heal
to hopefully
refill anew
beyond
this and all
collective losses
of my broken past
that is
if ever meant
to be
perhaps
again
someday
yet at least
i know
and can see
for now
that answer
must remain
for me
an elusive mystery
still yet unknown
as i pick up
all my scattered
pieces here
and simply
strive
to move
on
with my
life
again
beyond
its current
empty holes
haunting sense
of unhealed
collective
and
recent loss
self suppressed
buried deep
so long hid
away
out of sight
out of mind
my own
alone
again
but nonetheless
despite all that
i still hear it
call to me
like a withered
ghost
still waiting
in the wings
somewhere
back stage behind
the curtains
for me to finally come
to open up
those frightened curtains
to set them free
back out into
the light i am
at so so
so long
last
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