Immortality

This particular poem makes me want to ask a question. Do you ever write a poem that you feel so deeply in your soul that it almost hurts? I know that's a strange question and maybe I'm just a strange person but every time I read this poem I still feel it as deeply as I did while I was writing it, while my heart was breaking. I don't know I'm just curious...

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You're gone.

I will never

see you,

touch you,

breathe you in

again.

But in my words

you will be

immortalized.

I assure you

my darling

that with my pen

as witness

you will be painted

in deep strokes

of ink

to lie penned

on soft supple paper

where

I will describe

your laugh,

your eyes,

the way you

tuck your hair

behind your ear.

You will and

have already been

quoted,

described,

and yes,

cried over

baptized

in tears and ink

hundreds of times.

Some will see you

as a Villain while

others will swear

you are a Goddess.

But with pen in hand

I will write you

always with love

As mine.

My hair to stroke,

My lips to kiss.

And when you leave

as inevitably

you always do

I'll beg for

your return.

Alas,

you'll be gone,

but I promise

you'll live forever

always as

the only story

that ever really

mattered.

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