Sunday, July 10, 2022

snippets of a tragedy

"For all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'it might have been'"

John Greenleaf Whitter

--

Lost letters on bloodied battlefields,

Flashing pennies in parched fountains.


Like memories of a dream space

Draped under a sepia haze.


It's you and me though, I promise.

The pieces are there.

We're meant to be happy, I swear.

--

I see a place somewhere.


Somewhere faint but familiar,

If not a little off kilter.


I see scattered fragments of us

That might have been.

--

Someday may my heart be okay

That perhaps

We're not meant for today.

--

In some other world,

Some other life.


Maybe.


Just not here.

Not this time.

--

fin

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