million days

Jump starting long dormant writing with some cryptic thinking aloud. A minor experiment in word mechanics as well. Not sure I like the last stanza much. Work in progress.

we used to finish each others' sentences, you and I

a million days ago, so it now seems.

daily distances now grow and widen,

rivers that subvert the dreams

 

we had as youngsters; life's potential, you and I

unlocked, unexamined, breathed to breathing.

we arced like graceful birds across the sky

born to love and like all lovers needing no meaning

 

for lives lived together to flash and glisten in the light, bringing

new lives to fruit, new souls to race and grow.

new children playing in the sun, the rain, eyes bright and singing

songs that we both have now ceased to know

 

or that surely come less easily now to our lips and minds

as a million days pass through sleep's unguarded gate.

distances daily widen, grow vast as empires, and leave no guiding signs

as you and I pray, unknown now to each other, that it has not yet become too late.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

A lot of story hidden in these words. When you live with someone. At first all things are good and happy. Hard to stay on the good road. I like the questions and the hope to find the good path again. A very strong ending to this poem. Sometime we must stop and adjust our life before it can't be repaired. A excellent poem.
Coyote