Post by jadedinnocent on Jun 24, 2006 15:02:38 GMT -5
3/14/ 06 #1
Stale Coffee and Memories
The apartment smells like stale coffee
in spite
of the scented candle
burning
I’ve hardly eaten all day
An e- mail from a friend a month since
Passed away
Saying she wouldn’t stay another winter
Memorial the first week of spring
I cry for the past
How much of you
I never knew even after 20 years
things I never asked or have forgotten
that no-one else can know
These will haunt me, but
So will the happiness
Of our many adventures
~~~~
(I lost a very dear friend to cancer this past Dec. 14. I wrote this on Valentine's Day when I got an e-mail from her address but written by her husband about her memorial. I've posted it elsewhere but they know much more of the back story, but I just now decided to share it here as well.)
Stale Coffee and Memories
The apartment smells like stale coffee
in spite
of the scented candle
burning
I’ve hardly eaten all day
An e- mail from a friend a month since
Passed away
Saying she wouldn’t stay another winter
Memorial the first week of spring
I cry for the past
How much of you
I never knew even after 20 years
things I never asked or have forgotten
that no-one else can know
These will haunt me, but
So will the happiness
Of our many adventures
~~~~
(I lost a very dear friend to cancer this past Dec. 14. I wrote this on Valentine's Day when I got an e-mail from her address but written by her husband about her memorial. I've posted it elsewhere but they know much more of the back story, but I just now decided to share it here as well.)
