Remnant Relics

this sudden and unbelievable heat

rushing beyond what's comfortably convenient,

somehow reminds me of you

of you in the sun.

and I,

will think of us

though you're no longer here,

maybe we were never enough

random thoughts of faithfulness

when you were anything but.

would our lives be any different now

if that one part was, that wasn't

echoes of another time

dance with the rising of each new dawn,

memories of some twisted rhyme

locked forever behind the blinds as my eyes shut

is this all that struggles to regain

on those distant days when nothing makes sense...

Reviews

[David Scott]

You speak your pain well... You ask questions most people ask when things don't go as expected.
How can anyone make sense of nonsense? Was anything real?
Only you can say what was and was not real to you. Period.
You never really know another person's reality. Honestly, few of us even try to know our own true self. This is very true for the "western male". Nothing in our culture teaches men to know who they are and be true to their honorable callings in life. We go through life making excuses and using up people and relationships to feel good... This is taught on TV and in pop culture.
We need to give love openly and freely, but we need to be much more careful who we enter into contractual love with. How can we expect someone to honor a contract they don't even understand?
I honestly think people, men and women, do the best they can with the resources they have.
We love to our capacity. If this capacity has not been grown and is continuing to grow it will fail us and those we wish to love in life...
Anyhow, you have me thinking.
Thank you for sharing this heartfelt cry.

[Alisa Js]

Thank you again for stopping by.

I agree with you, in that we, as people need the right emotional foundation as children to be better equipped as adults. So true! Sadly, the existing role models in the media are pathetic at best in teaching this critical and life sustaining lesson, which results in broken and fractured relationships which never really had a chance...

Wishing you well.

Alisa💫

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Tastefully and beautiful. I imagine this is a metaphor for something bigger in life, but it is brilliant all the same.

[Alisa Js]

Thank you💫

[Angelic_Starchild]

I love this piece Alisa! Oh the joys of having to trust other people...

Placing faith and trust into another person is the hardest thing to do when falling in love. For me; it reminds me that being vulnerable is an important part of falling in love and it is that risk, that makes the relationship satisfying when/if it succeeds.

[Alisa Js]

Thank you for stopping by and for your comments, AS ...I will be by soon

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-- ohhhhh... this piece is so lyrical and moving... and triggers so many thoughts... -- i dunno why fidelity is hard for so many people... -- i dunno if they lose everything precious in their lives for a momentary impulse... -- things are never the same for people who are unfaithful... or so i think... as i feel they dilute the quality of their lives forever...

[Alisa Js]

Hello serah,

Yes, I agree...it's never the same after trust has been broken, especially romantically speaking.

Thank you for stopping by.

Alisa😃

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-- my privilege... :)