July 19, 2008

• Electric

  How do I mourn you
  When I refuse to believe you are dead
  How do I stop remembering
  The things you said
  About me
  As a person, a woman, a poet
  How do I leave it behind

  How do I stop wishing you back
  Do I give up
  Do I swallow hard and pack it in
  Ditch the verse and grab my purse
  And go
  I wish I could know

  Is it better to remember
  And try to smile
  Realize it was good for a while
  Like a lover whose face I can’t forget
  Farewell, my dear, I’m glad you let
  Me in for a time

  Oh, I could probably try
  To recreate you, reconstruct you
  Some poor replica of your beauty
  But how do you replicate perfection
  Besides, it wasn’t me who gave you life
  I just happened by one day
  And was forever changed

  I can’t promise to stop longing
  Can’t write you out of the song
  That haunts me in the night
  But will I be all right
  When the gears rust shut
  And nothing is left but
  Quiet

  ©2008 lle

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