Thursday, May 1, 2025

poem

 Gap

We all go to our graves 

With a certainty deficit,

A gap between what we hope

For and what we know.

This hole is best filled by

Love, of course, but when 

We go to retrieve it 

As doubt demands it

We find the lacuna empty.

Where is it? Where did it go?

Did you forget already?

We’ve given it all away, silly,

To everyone we love

So they will have it

When they face their own

Days of doubt.

The only certainty

Is the love we leave behind,

Poured into a hole

With a hole in the bottom of it


5/1/25

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