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Kind of a Maudlin Kind of a Day
by Mark M Lichterman → (All Poetry by Mark M Lichterman)
Wednesday, December 4, 2019    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Thoughts of one gone
These past near six years

 

Kind of a maudlin

Kind of a day

 

Kind of a maudlin

kind of a day

Today

Though the sky

Is blue

And temperature hovers

Into high sixties

To low seventies

Along with a slight

Though cool breeze

 

Today

Though having no knowledge

Why

Though feeling well

I find thoughts causing

A slight watering to my eyes

And a slight flutter

To the area of my heart

As…

 

Thoughts of one gone

These past near six years

And though the last years

Of our lives were

Of anger and pain

And hatred and illness

And though the

Death of my wife was met

Yes…

The death of my wife

Was met with tears and

Relief along with more

Than a bit of sorrow

For what should have been

For what could have been

 

Sadly…

In all honesty

The death of my wife

was met

At least by me

With a little more

Joy than sorrow

Because

Yes...

She was out of pain and

Because

Yes...

Because there was more hatred than love

Because

Yes...

Beyond my care

Beyond what I

Could do for her

Because…

From her point of view

I never did enough

Because...

From my point of view

I could never do enough

Because she was in a place hated

Hated with all her heart

 

Rationalizing...

Rationalizing the death of my wifw

For her…

Rationalizing the death of my wife

I thought  for her death is good

For me

Rationalizing…

Was I wrong

Am I wrong for wanting my life to go on

Am I wrong for wanting to love again

Am I wrong for wanting the speeding

Moments, minutes, hours, days, weeks

Months and years to go by without loving again’

 

There was a time…

There was a time so many years ago

It seems the life of two other people

There was a time we vowed everlasting love

There was a time...

There was a time so many years ago

It seems the life of two other people

When we lovingly argued she or me

Could not live

Would not wish to live

Were one or the other to die

 

How wrong

How wrong because when

She was gone

I felt a bit happier than sad

Because my life was mine again

Mine to find love again

And yet…

 

Kind of a maudlin

Kind of a day

Today….

Though the sky

Is blue

And the temperature hovers

Into high sixties

To low seventies

Along with a slight

Though cool breeze

Today

Though having no knowledge

Why

Though feeling well

I find thoughts causing

A slight watering to my eyes

And a slight flutter

To the area of my heart

Because…

 

Because 

I do miss the

Love I once had

 

  ©May 7, 2010 Mark M. Lichterman


 


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Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on December 5, 2019
Touching write. Death is never easy, regardless of the circumstances.


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