"Hey Jackie..."

Today was a long, long day and now an even longer evenin’.  I came back to WC for - something… to find a corner to go round, a wall to lean on, an insight to now and feeling …something.  I read Ed Harts “Ol Man Death” and was commenting when I found tears.  This leaked out but I took it off his page, wasn’t fair to tarnish his gild with my tin - ya know?

 

Fingers been doin my walking

And the words are echoing loud and round

snaps and circumstance

I NEED a cig and it ain’t even sunset yet.

 

And the world’s a meaner place

and all the clichés are real

and here…

 

Damn, I want that cig I can taste right now...

Watchin’ the sun - slowly fall and

not much of anythin’ goin on. 

Neighbor is likely cryin’ right now

was close to it when I left his house...

He was tellin me of 40 yrs and months

and days

and how it wasn't fair

and he couldn't see the papers he was goin' through

as his eyes were lost

in yesterdays.

He told me how he kept his promise -

to BE there and holding -

was THERE at the end,

but she was asking for him anyway

in a lil lost voice.

Damn, I need that cig.

Goodbye lil darlin.

 

Chris

 

Sorry Ed - it just leaked out... sorry.

Author's Note

6/21/2015

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Feeling, sharing, remembering is never wrong - in fact any or all is/are better than a hard heart and gross insensitivity. Ed and you are two of a kind.. you see and he feel so much more than..

God bless your dear heart. And thank you for sharing your inevitable skills with language and more.

[Chris]

Morning Em... coffee got cold on my side tonight.

[Renée]

Reading is like sitting across from a friend at a table. I'm glad you were able to catch your leak, brings back memories..not easy ones..but ones we all live through.

[Chris]

Good morning Renee, thanks for pausing. Life as we live it...

[...]

I don't think Ed minds, Chris. He's very familiar, you know? Ya, you know...and it's ok to feel, to care, and goodbye's always seem so final, but only to the ones left, and only for a while. Nothing is forever and nothing final. Such a beautiful display of compassion and heart, dear poet

[Chris]

Thanks for pausing and speaking your thoughts Lynn.

[J. J. Nightingale]

Tears fell, because this is familiar

I never smoked ..but i recently ate, 10 Reese's cups, extra salty..

......♥... J.

[Chris]

The "taste" that keeps on giving and giving...

[J. J. Nightingale]

Take Care .... ♥

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this just about made my tears flow....

on the keys, could have been electrocution ----because of your elegant execution of thoughts....

j.

[Chris]

Thanks for pausing Jacob...

[olla]

when the sting is too sharp and the pain is too deep for the mind to grasp.. there is comfort in the little ordinary things that keep the tears at bay.. because we might drown if we dare to let them flow..

[Chris]

I appreciate your thoughts Olla