Divorce/Death Poem

I won first place for free-verse prompt poetry with the following entry. The prompt was 'eternal':

“Sleep Well, My Love”
By Sugaree


When you walked into my
life that fourteenth day of February
I knew right then that you’d be the
only man that could set my heart ablaze.

I cringe at the thought of how our love went wrong.
I think of our children and how
they would have loved the two of us
together for the eternity like we said we’d be.

Now you are gone, I mean really
gone and today is our anniversary.
I revisited the day we took the vow before
God to love and honor
one another.

I sat for a moment and prayed
for your eternal peace even
though you broke my heart into so
many pieces that I can not
even love anymore.

I wanted to rush back to that
time we kissed and my lips quivered
and my heart skipped some beats
and my palms got all sweaty and
my legs felt like those
ten-cent noodles and like parting.

You kissed me so deeply that
I knew that you loved me and I know
that you felt what I felt cause
we made babies that looked like you and me.

Our passion never died cause that
last time we talked you told me that
you were sorry for all the wrong you’d
done and I believed you and wanted my
painted lips to stain your lips like that
time we kissed first.

Stubbornly I held the loving
words on my tongue that
could have lifted your spirit just
one last time before you went to sleep
forever.

My only wish is that I could
have wakened you with a kiss
as I stood by your bedside
as you breathed
your last air of life.

Never will we kiss like
that first time, over and over
again and maybe, just maybe,
make one more baby that look like me
and you. So sleep well, my love.


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[ February 15, 2005, 08:12 PM: Message edited by: Sugaree ]

First place is where it belongs.
Congratulations Sug.

chickadee

Beautiful... captivating!
Well done, Sugaree! Congrats!

Lovely! Congrats...

Wow Sugaree, this is wonderful. You have been hiding your talent from us you bad girl....

No, not hiding. I have many that I've entered and won with, some second and some not winners at all. I just felt like sharing this one since it was our anniversary. I was kinda feeling him that day. I was wondering what it would've, could've been like had not things gone so wrong. Oh well. Can't cry over the spilled milk, especially dried up spilled milk, huh?


Glad you all like.

[ February 17, 2005, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: Sugaree ]