Rick Elpers Poems

You saved my heart
As we began one trip
Around the sun together
Melding our lives however difficult
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The skeletal remains
Left to bake in the sun
Pealed away tissues
To expose a withered heart
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We are asked to ask
That the Lord be with us
As our choice to be with Him
Yet the decision is against 
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Mornings bring sorrow
Though she's never 
Been to this house
She's been in my heart
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Were it that death separated us 
is better than to be rejected
To have no recourse and no hope
Without physical possibility 
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I've spoken of death
In my poetry void of spirit
Diminishing hope
Everyday more difficult
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With the door now closed 
With our hearts flat 
Seemingly near death
Only recourse I have 
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Desired aspirations
Accumulate against 
The backdropp of my reality 
Weighing down perceptions
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Crickets faintly glisten 
the full nights moon
A frog tells me of his presence
in a field nearby
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As it is a living death,
I long to feel again
To taste to smell to hear 
and to see, for my heart has died
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