Tag: abandonment
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Where Are You My Friend…?
This poem emerged from walking through a heat-struck urban lot where absence felt more physical than memory. I wanted the poem to carry abandonment through objects—barbed wire, cats, asphalt—without commentary. The body persists, but only through what it touches. The theme is not grief but residue: what remains when someone doesn’t.
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Vessels
VesselsThe pots remembered emptiness,remembered the ache of hunger,how they were born to forestall famine,to be filled and filled again,to feed mother, father, the children.not this silent, stew-less simmer.When the kitchen faucet dripped out of rhythm,the backsplash tile sprinkled dustonto the dirty water,onto the tarnished coreof the lonely pans sitting stagnant in the sink,they almost felt…
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Lullaby of Mother and New Born Child Abandoned in the Night
The Hudson sleepsand the clouds sweep over the moon. I promise little dearwith this small tear I will always love you.Sleep, sleep, sleeppeace, peace, peacethe promise I grant you. This song is the factthat your star remains intactin my heart, steady and true.The river’s lull,the moons’s full glowwill always pull us through.The path will be…