Carl Newlen

Breathe

- July 10, 2009, 3:29 pm | Sum Poems

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Tonight the room is so still
I forget to breathe - and earlier
the sun was warm - the birds
coming back as you are leaving.

And I`m stuck on words to write,
tip-of-the-pen stuck - so close to something
I could say to make us magnificent,
better than `blue light in water`, or
the words that start with `Q`.

I should have counted the endless stars
with you that night - those stars behind
the stars - your hair wet and dark
on your shoulders - the things
you said about the crescent moon.

I should have breathed in more of you.

I`m just not ready to forget things,
like books we could open and quietly read -
our breath calm before we sleep -
to live a life like that, happy, forgiving,
forgetting to worry about tomorrow.

There are hollow places in our lives
of which we know nothing - not know
how you were able to fill mine, or know
how long I`ll fall through this new open space
now that you are gone.

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