In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
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
Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting