Blood and Guts: Helena Lazaro
Another uplifting verse
July 3, 2007 08:47 PM

T-shirt like the Shroud of Turin

Our history
of days spent
doing ordinary things
has become
extraordinary
because it's ended.

I never thought
that it would be the last time
I served our meal,
the last time
you used this towel,
the last time
we rode in a car
together.

There isn't that much
left of you,
maybe a few albums,
a cup you drank from
next to the bed.

Ordinary things
that now require
preservation.
Relics from an age
when life was easy
and good.

In the end
all we have
are memories
and even those
will be stolen
one day.


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Comments

The verse that starts with "Ordinary things" is beautiful. The whole poem is great.

Posted by: Ali on July 9, 2007 08:56 AM

NOTE: I am actually trying to comment on the post done after this one, but for some reason it wouldn't let me. So if this makes no freakin' sense, that's because it makes no freakin' sense :) Unless you read the next post, that is.

I feel the same as you do, and quite frankly, worry because it seems these days both boys and girls don't have that feeling that they can do anything if they simply WANT to do it and WORK at it. My mother's greatest gift to me was my self-sufficiency and self-esteem. All hail kick-ass chicks! :)

Posted by: Cookiebitch on July 30, 2007 08:51 AM
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