In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin
Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could
I’ll keep searching for the meaning of life and I hope I find it as crumpled paper nearish a trash can
If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds