The imagery is spectacular in this piece. You can really “feel” what it means to go through and get beyond grief.
Pouring it out
Like gasoline
Onto embers
Discarded reflections
Tossed over
Sorting it all out
Striking the match
Igniting pain
Pieces engulfed
Burning it down
Shattered
Completely hollow
Lost or profound
Crackling grief
The sound of healing
Stoking memories
Smoke billows peace
Breathing relief
Slate wiped clean
Ashes floating
Carrying secrets hidden deep
Therapeutic release
with shallow breath
and heaving emotions
i bequeath the rivulets
escaping
pittering
on the soft earth
from here on out
i lament
the one-sided conversations
a yearning
for a return
to more than just memories
An excellent piece delving deep into what heart-felt emotions can do to us. I was pulled into her descriptions, fascinated by how well it described where grief can lay and feel. Just wonderful!
Even though I won’t ever see them again, I still carry them.
Inside and outside
On the lining of my heart
And the edges of my brain
Beneath my fingernails
Or hanging from an eyelash.
They saturate my writing and my words
Sloping from an s, or cradled in a y.
Sometimes, they are even in a glass of whiskey glass of wine.
But this is about the body.
If you were to unwind me out across the earth,
Spread out this fleshboat of a body crack open the ribs and peer beneath the surface—
They would be there too.
Resting on an iliac
Sleeping in a clavicle
Wrapped around the vertebrae
They trickle through the veins.
A small room, and the feel of them inside of it
The light and how it pours in through the window
A book of poetry upon the nightstand
A guitar sitting in the…
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Although written quite some time ago, Onah really captures the current atmosphere well in this piece.
Have you
ever been
so sad
That you felt
your heart
disintegrating
piece by piece
Your soul
withered
Your spirit
dissipated
like smoke
in the wind
Nothing makes
sense
Except the taste
of sadness.
Feelings of anguish.
The call came expectedly.
“We lost her today.”
