This is completely beautiful, every single line. Fitting choice of image, and your introduction line is profound. My favorite lines are the last three, especially “I will appear human” because emotional pain can have us feeling like a walking piece of destruction. “Nothing to get up for” . . . so powerful. ~~ djl
I read this poem more than once and always came away with a different "take" on it. Was the speaker an old man missing his deceseased wife? Or a younger man whose relationship, or marriage, has ended? But no matter which version of the story I was reading, they all shared one thing in common. The speaker was feeling sorrow for a loss of someone he loved dearly. I think it's something anyone whose ever been love can relate to.
Great poem, Fee! Yes, you are being blessed with a brand new day by God to do the stuff you want to do. I feel more and more like this lately after my COVID and Pneumonia, I feel life is more precious than we give them credit for. Our children are even more valuable.
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Facing imprisonment in 2061’s dystopian Manhattan, Cori Christopher is given the opportunity to time travel to Occupied Paris in 1941 to try and save singer Noel Matheson, leader of the Cafe Violette Resistance, from Nazi destruction…and perhaps save
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