Musical Selection: Sarah McLachlan|I Will Remember You
A Revised Haibun (for Chrissy)
I tell myself, I am glad you did not live to see this world as it unravels right before our eyes. Destruction is at every turn; children bombed, mothers, sons, families scrambling to leave home . . . the home they have always known. We would have talked about this — voiced our disdain for the evil of this world, yet we would have mentioned our gratefulness too. There is this gaping hole in my heart I have been struggling to fill, and the only thing I can do is write — write about you; about your smile, about your love, about the way you never bit your tongue.
All I can do is just write, and pray this hole fills itself with something — someone — anything else soon.
a piece of my heart
is buried in this cold world
my cousin is gone
©2022 Tremaine L. Loadholt, Originally published via Simily, revised version published in The Junction via Medium.
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