General Poetry posted December 4, 2023

Retired Marine; retired high school teacher; married 39 years; father of three; five grandchildren; two granddogs, and Shadow.

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Real Loss

When I observe real loss,

there is no doubting it is gone;

the empty face,

a withdrawn grace,

a black sun on this darkest dawn.

She sat to play a Christmas song,

daughter poised to play along,

but only silence,

note defiance,

nothing right, as all was wrong.

What was her gifted

skill, now lifted,

left the musical score,

foreign and no more --

a sheet with dots adrift.

So, when I saw her face,

realizing nature's waste,

six decades now silent

an emptiness now giant,

not even left a taste.

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December
2023

My wife was preparing to practice an annual recital with our daughter and realized she could no longer understand how to play the music.

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