Poem for my husband

[melovescookies]

I've been writing a lot since my husband died and it's really helped me to process my feelings. Sometimes I write letters to him, sometimes I just ramble on about nothing in notebooks and I've also attempted a little poetry. I posted one the poems that I wrote just a couple of months out on my original thread if anyone remembers that.

Anyway, I don't claim to be a professional writer and I'm actually too embarrassed to show anyone in my real life anything I've written but I feel like I want to share my writings with someone and I figured why not do it as my anonymous internet self so here it goes. I know the punctuation is probably funky and that's something I'm still working on. I wrote this about six months after my husband's death.

Etch, mark, carve, cut.

I think of your hands.
Massive, my hands tiny in yours.
You hold my ring finger, as always.
“Thank you" you say and I know.

Bruised bloody knuckles lifting me up, guiding me.
Hands leading me somewhere.
Through the brambles like a blind girl I follow, as always.
“Trust me" you say and I do.

Cold inhuman, lifeless hands folded politely.
I stare willing you to move.
I hesitate, I'm drawn, captivated, as always.
You say nothing and I know, you're gone.

Etch, mark, carve, cut.
Hands, your hands.
Eternally engraved in my mind.
As always.

[Dude111]

You might not be a professional but your better than me @ writing!!

That was gorgeous and I hope you dont ever lose the will to that

[harry chickpea]

Very nice.

If you study the lives of artists and writers, great art and great writing more often than not comes out of great pain.

[metamorphosis]

I like it a lot.

It expresses how I feel about knowing exactly the smallest details of a person. And appreciating the person & the those details.

[melovescookies]

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone. It feels a little strange to share something I've written but I really wanted to do it. I miss my husband so much and writing about him is one way that I can remember him and express what I'm feeling.

[Dude111]

Ahhhhhhh Im so sorry honey.......... Ya gotta believe your husband is still there in spiritual form right?

[dizzybint]

Originally Posted by melovescookies

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone. It feels a little strange to share something I've written but I really wanted to do it. I miss my husband so much and writing about him is one way that I can remember him and express what I'm feeling.

How lovely.... Im sure in your heart you will always remember him though, words written or not..