Saving Grace

some people stay close to our heart no matter how much time passes

 

Did you forget

I gave you a limited edition

pink paisley Fender Stratocaster

electric guitar?

 

I brought you breakfast in bed.

 

I cry when I’m happy.

I laugh when I’m sad.

 

Did you forget

the pictures I’d take?

The notes I’d leave?

 

Do you know

I give to charities?

Care about our environment? all animals?

The children of our inner cities? and Africa?

 

Did I not

do enough good for you?

I ache with the realization that I could have done more.

 

I remember

how you went out in the cold

to get the cure for my cravings.

 

I remember

your small laugh.

How you held me. How you smiled.

 

Neither of us were grounded.

 

I’m like a bird ready to migrate.

You’re like a fish in too cold of water.

 

We’ve been misplaced.

 

Do you remember

these small hands of mine?

 

If nothing else, remember them.

Remember how they touched you.

Remember the electric energy that runs through them.

 

The energy that helped to save a whale.

 

Because if only you remember,

that might be enough

 

 

to save me.

Reviews

[Claudia Moss]

How lovely, how lovely!!
I know it is enough to save...for energy is love...and in that you are saved.

Absolutely a balm for the soul...molten gold!