Lost a Friend

Lost a friend, just the other day,
didn't know, what to think.
Haven't mourned, the last one yet,
they're going, as fast as I blink.

It takes much longer, to say goodbye,
than to meet, and make, a good friend.
Because forever now, years later,
I always, think of you, in the end.

End of everyday, the last day of the week,
the beginning, of the month,
the promise, of a date to keep.

Letting go, of just that one,
has taken, all my time,
I can't mourn, the second yet,
but I have you, on my mind.

I noticed you'd left, right away,
But mourning, will have to wait.
Tonight I drink to you
another day I will know my fate.

Reviews

[emmajoygreen]

Remembering is mourning. It's the forgetting that hurts. Your fine words suggest far more. A drink is a blessing when a friend joins you in spirit.

[D. Mansfield]

Your reviews are always so . . Enjoyable to read. I appreciate the depth you take the things we all write, and I thank you so much for being here, reading my meager offerings

[emmajoygreen]

No point in casually reading a post that somebody will have laboured over. Yours are not meagre words: you wrote the following.

'.Letting go, of just that one,
has taken, all my time,
I can't mourn, the second yet,
but I have you, on my mind.'

That's how it is. You have to catch breath before moving on, prepare self to grieve yet again .. .. and that hurts like hell.

[D. Mansfield]

Thank you so much I appreciate you more than you can know.

[emmajoygreen]

Nobody feels exactly the same in such an awful time. But empathy never hurts.

[Thomas W Case]

Superb work. I relate all too well. Lost many friends, and I tried to drink my way through it. Didn't work. But now, sober I think about the ones I lost and write about them. This is powerful. Great job.

[D. Mansfield]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I fortunately was using the drinking as a metaphor, I don't drink anymore.

[Chris Shaw]

Drinking away the sorrow. Doesn’t work for long though. A temporary solution before the pain comes back. Losing friends is so difficult, but it is good to celebrate the good times too DM. So much emotion comes through in these stanzas.

Chris

[D. Mansfield]

Thank you Chris, the drink has never worked for me I hardly touch it anymore, I took poetic license here in the drink8ng reference.