Beyond Recall
My brother's best friend died in a car accident last June, and I still find it hard to accept that he's gone. So I got the urge last night to write this poem. It's directed to my brother, so that's why I say "you".
Beyond Recall Nothing matters to the dead, that's what's so hard for the rest of us to take in-- their complete indifference to our enticements, our attempts to get in touch-- they aren't observing us from a discreet distance, they aren't listening to a word we say-- you know that, but you don't believe it, even deep in a cave you don't believe in total darkness, you keep waiting for your eyes to adjust and reveal your hand in front of your face-- so how long a silence will it take to convince us that we're the ones who no longer exist, as far as X is concerned, and Y, that they've forgotten every little thing they knew about us, what we told them and what we didn't have to, even our names mean nothing to them now--our throats ache with all we might have said the next time we saw them. |
I like it. I love stanza's 7 8 and 9. Very Good Ginny.
Sorry about your loss too. |
I like the algebra metaphor. overall it feels kinda disjointed though. I feel like an ass for critiquing a poem you wrote about a dead friend however, so I'll leave it at disjointed (unless you were going for that sound)
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