This poem really touched me. There's not really any other way to explain it.
It reads perfectly fluent. I can imagine it sung as a slow acoustic song.
I feel like I connect with this on both levels - both being someone that has closed a book but also I think I have been the one with sad blue eyes and an impish grin.
Great write!
Lovely the way this reads Kath, just trips off the tongue ti tum ti tum ti tum.
"Fade with grace", easier said than done but always the right thing to do. Writing about it is definately a part of the process. Does it get any easier? Sigh... Yes close that book, use it to prop up a wonky table leg or something or take it on a walk and sling it in the river. Next!
So strong and emotional, this is.
I love your choice of words
and the way you organized them.
I do agree, this would make a good song,
I can picture singing it in my head.
This is wonderful =)
Some of my work is very personal and some is flight taking fancy... a writer's prerogative... :)
Read something of mine and I will read something of yours - very nice and simple and what a way.. more..