A breath, taken

Let me
breathe
this once
without thinking, no tears
falling from scrunched up eyes
or lips salty with memory and regret,
the waves having crested …

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Published on Medium: P.S. I Love You for Poetry Sunday

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Photograph: my own

 

Unspooled Images

As I wrote, the memories
unspooled like film, images
shuttered and left to gather
dust in the far reaches of my mind
a book never shared
only a what if of never knowns …

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Published on Medium: P.S. I Love You for Poetry Sunday

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© 2019 Christine Kelly All Rights Reserved

Photograph: my own