A Blessing - Poem by Leslie Alexis

R. H. Peat (2/8/2014 4:36:00 PM)

''It is far better to have loved
and lost it;
than to have never loved at all.
If we can't be vulnerable
to the allow the feeling
we can't have the experience at all.
If the wind blows
you have to stand in its midst to know it.

Grief is a part of life
that whispers death into the heart
that is our dark night
and it fractures bones
in the daylight of memory.

All I can remember now
are the dried leaves
that were left jammed
beneath the screen door
when she left.

It was much later
that I discovered
she wasn't the only one
that knew how
to kiss my dreams
to make them real.

There is more
than one diamond
to be found
in the diamond mine.

a poet friend
RH Peat
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Khairul Ahsan (7/23/2013 5:26:00 PM)

A nice poem. One who has given his/her best, need not worry. Instead of giving one's best, when things start getting bad, death becomes a better option, although death is absolutely in God's domain. (Report) Reply