Shopping For The Perfect Card Poem by Laurence Overmire
Shopping For The Perfect Card
Pretty cards inked with flowers, beaches, boats and such
Do not express
What lurks within the heart
There are no sugar-sappy words for
Pain. Grief. Loss.
Violation.
We hallmark our relationships with illusions
Saccharine sentiments
To sweeten the bitter taste of salty unshed tears
Festering
In the wounds of famil-i-ar
Battles lost, never won.
(Previously published in Nuvein, Feb.2000, Issue 7)
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