poetry of Capt Jack

[Capt Jack]

Just me

Since I last saw your face, two years have now passed
Seems I’ve learned to grieve and move on at long last

What once was so close seems a lifetime ago
And how I begged you to stay, but the powers say no

So off on your way to greater things than I see
What was once you and I has become now, just me.

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Forgiving ones self is a hard thing to do
Yet is a path that must be followed now
In the box
Or in the sun
The choices set before me as clear as a springtime sky

Life beckons me on to join in its revelry
I trudge forward into its waiting arms
And in its gentle caress, learn to walk again
Sorrow gives way to memory
Death makes way for new life
This is how things are meant to be

To accept this, a bitter pill
To deny it embraces the horror in an unending torment
To languish in the darkness holding fast to what once was
Or to see clouds flying and realize that all is, indeed, not lost

I choose life and pray it still chooses me