Forgiveness

Forgiveness
-after Scott

My love is stronger in death than life.
Iceberg bitterness melts
and music box lockets
dance on sweet water

(Why couldn’t I love you? My icy
fractal paned eyes. Dig deeper
Why couldn’t I love you? I smash
mirrors I can’t stand to look in.)

Your dream arms embrace,
your voice carries on a pipe
smoke breeze, my love is
strong now. Can you feel it?

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What an emotional prompt for me. This is for Scott the love of my life, that sadly is only a realization after his death. For me it was excruciating to lose someone I spent a life of strife with and to be faced with the regret and pain of denying that love. After writing this, I could actually smell his pipe smoke on my sweater...

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is “In his poem, “Goodbye,” Geoffrey Brock describes grief in three short stanzas, the second of which is entirely made up of a rhetorical dialogue. Today, write your own meditation on grief. Try using Brock’s form as the “container” for your poem: a few short stanzas, with a middle section in which a question is repeated with different answers given.” 

Source: https://www.napowrimo.net/go/