All We Cannot Bear Alone (poem) by Dawn Richerson on AuthorsDen

All We Cannot Bear Alone
by Dawn Richerson → (All Poetry by Dawn Richerson)
Saturday, July 6, 2019 Not rated by the Author.

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A birthday poem, late I know, honoring the flame you could not extinguish. Because you, too, are held within it. I have such gratitude for the Keeper of the Stars, whose we are and who still is ours. And especially for the one who was my friend in time, who bore the flame and walked through fire without losing heart until I could remember mine and make my swift return. I thank you, too, mirror mine, for all I've learned. Love and honor, always wherever we all shall go from here, Dawn
Alone you have haunted me through a holy land in forested France with letters unsent cruel harsh words not meant touch of your hand and every missed chance to begin again. Alone I waited for you through endless long night in cold empty rooms without news of you never knowing who was now in your sight or how many tombs you buried me in. Alone he stood there by me through silence and storm in rivers of blood without any thought he never once sought love in certain form or flower from bud and what might have been. Alone I loved him through time through a glass darkly in this purple haze with faint flicker far the twinkle of star shining so starkly through fusion of days spent wondering when. Alone we lived, torn apart holding some curtain a truth divided me never knowing how love was growing the ending certain: love that lives again. Alone at home in my heart I learned to forgive deep waters parted and at last I saw could somehow recall how we died and lived how it all started there was no question. Alone lost there in your head can’t you see it now how there between us was always One Love eternal above and here below how we meet, friend to friend. Alone he stands in the sun tending to a fire that kept love alive rekindling life’s flame and casting no blame lifting us higher helping us survive all we cannot bear alone.
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