In Loving Memory Rickie Lee Hawthorne
(2014)
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark