NaPoWriMo - Day Six

I had to go into work today to email out something I promised someone on Thursday... Thus I was here and able to post Day six on day six.

Huzzah!

The Prompt: (I don't think I got it quite right...)

And now, our (completely optional) prompt for the day! This might seem like a bit of a downer, but I challenge you to write a valediction. This is a poem of farewell. Perhaps the most famous one is John Donne’s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, which turns the act of saying good-bye into a very tender love poem. But your poem could say “good-bye” (and maybe good riddance!) to anything or anyone. A good-bye to winter might be in order, for example. Or good-bye to the week-old easter eggs in your refrigerator. Light or serious, long or short, it’s up to you!


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Because:

I close my eyes

and you are gone,

a figment of what was.

a wisp of dream.

a happy home.

gone all because... "Because".

You had no reason.

you gave no signs.

spoke only that cursed word.

I want more,

I needed more,

though none was ever offered.

An absent love

now hides my smile.

I only feel my flaws.

my heart is broke

I am alone

And all because... "Because".

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