Day 11.. napowrimo.
Prompt from Jill Badonsky about something that happened to someone I know, and write about it as if it happened to me.
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It happened just like this
30 years of a good-enough life together brought to closure
A note of declaration of a love affair too precious to end
All that settles in the empty spaces of you is your suffocating scent
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30 years of a good-enough life together brought to closure
No conversation, no apology, no clue of this kind of failure
All that settles in the empty space of you is your suffocating scent
Adult children stunned into silence’s rise to rage
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No conversation, no apology, no clue of this kind of failure
Getting by for decades on the emptiness of generalities, and daily tasks
Adult children stunned into silence’s rise to rage
Betrayal and hurt seeking answers to unspoken questions
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Getting by for decades on the emptiness of generalities, and daily tasks
Talk and intimacy to be taken care of later, later, maybe tomorrow
Betrayal and hurt seeking answers to unspoken questions
Your gone is well gone and lost to any translation
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Talk and intimacy to be taken care of later, later, maybe tomorrow
Today brought not even a goodbye in your completion
Your gone is well gone and lost to any translation
Amazing how the sense of relief comes with the ‘glad-you’re-finally-gone.’
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Today brought not even a goodbye in your completion
It’s a wonder that the signs weren’t more obvious except between the sheets
Amazing how the sense of relief comes with the ‘glad-you’re-finally-gone.’
What you don’t know till you do
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It’s a wonder that signs weren’t more obvious except between the sheets
A note of declaration of a love affair to precious to end
What you don’t know till you do
It happened just like this