What Is This Strange Forgetting?
What is this strange forgetting
that has taken hold of me lately --
this being unable to remember
that everything is
sacred, holy, and alive?
The absence of you, my Friend,
surely has something to do with it.
Your being gone has opened
a small hole in me,
a pinprick,
the kind blood brothers make,
but you are nowhere in sight.
Where are you?
Where have you gone?
Something is leaving me slowly,
there's a leak I cannot see.
A day's worth amounts to almost nothing,
a week's would barely fill a thimble,
but it has been months now without you
and I am beginning to notice, lurking
like a stranger in my own shadow
and sleeping just a little too long.
Hey! I've got an idea!
Why don't you cross the universe to me today?
Why don't you show up unannounced at my door?
I really want to see you.
We'll both enjoy the moment
and the stunned looks on the faces of my friends
who have been so diligently reminding me
that you are already here.
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at February 7, 2010 04:05 PM
Comments
Hi Mitch!
Who wrote this - it wasn't you was it?...it's pretty good I must say!.
Pam
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at February 7, 2010 09:20 PM
so sweet, so lovely
Posted by: Susan Armstrong at February 8, 2010 03:22 AM
Pam, yes, i wrote this. Two days ago.
Posted by: Mitch Ditkoff at February 8, 2010 01:13 PM
What diamond-like friends
who remind you
the Friend never leaves -
Serve them, as you would
serve the Lord -
Posted by: j bhutu-ji at February 9, 2010 04:51 PM
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