I Want You Back!
Tom, I want you back! Not sick,
Not in pain, not far too thin.
I want you back as you were,
Not young, in your fine maturity,
In the time before the cancer,
Uninvited, came and took you away.
(June Butler 4-30-2019)
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Such a beautiful poem. Thank you so much for sharing it. Love last forever.
ReplyDeleteThe longing is so strong, and so hard, isn't it? The poem speaks to me. I hope it helped to write it, and I hope it helps to know that there are people who understand at least a little. My thoughts are with you today.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Sharing my thoughts does help a little.
ReplyDeleteHe is glad, he is who you think of him...I can feel the strength of your love drawing him near with this poem.
ReplyDeleteLove to you and Tom, today and forever
Thanks, Len. Love to you.
DeleteOnly someone who profoundly loved someone could have written this poem.
ReplyDeleteHe will come to you in dreams,
ReplyDeletehe will show himself in gestures
passed to your children in their DNA,
he will live in your memory more stubbornly
than the lint in the pockets and seams
of his favorite old shirt you've kept
just because it was his.
He is your love, not was, IS.
And that will always be true.
Amen.
Marthe, thank you. I hope so. Your poem is quite lovely and moving.
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