Today's poem is a "Golden Oldie" and was originally published here in December 2010
Paused
Washed up, eroded
by the course of, the force of...
...the caressing game of life
Once stirred, once a battle against the odds
Still
Ogre-like in its stature –
- like you
A failed plight, dead of night
A colossus so frail, strewn masts and a shredded sail
Now simply a faintly image, my friend –
- like you
Ghostly clouds embody the secrets of a hoped-for land
of a kind face, a warm heart and a stroke of your hand
Deathly silent, tears shed,
what lies now on the ocean bed?
Paused -
so quiet
Embers littered midst drift woods and lives
Caused -
what caused
shattered hopes, quashed spirits and severed ties
- by you?
Janinka Diverio