Never Say Never
Never though it would end,
For forever…
Those words hang in my memory
Mercilessly taunting me as I sleep
A promise made, but then unkept
All the years, and the future nights
Undone, as if never had certainly come
Gone…
Murals splashed with angry colors
Pamphlets scattered on the walkway
Yellowed and torn illustrations
And an empty venue, except for one
Staring at the heavy fading curtain
Silence…
The ticking clock it keeps on ticking
But the passing has a certain remedy
For wounds never truly heal
Time just helps to tuck them away
And what is lost becomes a memory
The pieces…
Picking up such an endless chore
Some go easier than others, it’s true
While tiny splinters tend to linger
Strange how things no longer matters
Right, wrong, which way the finger pointing
Collections…
All those bits carefully sorted into piles
Which one’s matter in the new photograph
Rubbish pile for most of the many
A few tarnished, but somehow unpartable
For now, maybe the pain needs a few more years
Memories…
Hooks holding fast but the rope is weak
The back and forth scratching of the past
Blurring out the noise, the shouting, the dark
Stripping it away, trying to find salvage
And eventually a peace with the remnants
Never…
Death had no seat at the table of parting
And forever was trampled by never
To go on living, well that’s the trick they say
A new stage, with freshly pressed handbills
But how to act?
I’m afraid…
Additional Reading
R.J. Schwartz is an American Poet and Author.
His complete works on The Creative Exiles Website can be found here
The Gypsy Thread is a huge collection of his original work
Ralph also writes on HubPages
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