never ending story

never ending story

 

 

i'm still traveling there

your grizzled face

in my mind's rest stop

silver mass of steel wool

and unshaven resistance

 

age finally subdued you

even as your eyes raged

against its assail

 

now i am photo shop

resurrections

of clean shaven smiles

stern resolutions

gentle hands on my shoulders

 

and gruff highways of love

like an enchanted ogre's 

soft core,

 

i will always travel in your fairy tale

and long for you tell me you

again and again and again.

 

 

erin-cilberto

7/20/17

Reviews

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

I don't think we ever lose that yearning for that blood-of-our-blood love. It's a shadow that haunts us forever, latching on to our souls and never letting go. We hunger for that which we will follow.

I sense the love and the longing. Beautiful!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Linda...
j.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Esp love the last verse with fairytale

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Julie.
j.

[Gee]

I'm guessing, perhaps wrongly, this is about your recently passed father.
Having not lost a parent, a constant, I can only imagine that the pain of loss mellows into the pain of memories tinged sometimes with smiles.
Hi Jacob, hope you are well

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, Gee....we never forget them....

thank you,
j.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

True
They come bk
In our writings often