In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
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
I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
My heart was paper now folded six times over to make it harder to tear I only hope that
I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
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
Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes