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A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished 8 months ago Updated 8 months ago 1 min read
5/12/25
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

Lazy days

In a daisy haze

Whenever I see them

I think of you

I think of the happy times

When life was rough but bearable

Now it all feels terribly feral

My head spinning in a barrel

Thinking

Thinking without blinking

Two confirmed living

Two erased from existence

Any others are unconfirmed

Feeling lower than a worm

A loitering sense of doubt

What is this all about

Did I mean nothing to you

Was I just a stand in

Repulsively recoiling from toiling

To ferment a relationship that no longer exists

A slave to emotion

Drowning in an ocean of my own making

For not having made more of an effort

To coo-coo to the hoo-hoo of your song

Time to move on

To hear a new song

I hope it won’t be long

Until once again I belong

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  • Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock8 months ago

    May that time for new belonging come quickly for you.

  • Cathy holmes8 months ago

    Beautifully miving, yet sad. Well done, Eric.

  • Mother Combs8 months ago

    I really felt this, Eric

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