Love Poem: The Sadness of Being
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Written by: Jayne Eggins

The Sadness of Being

the mourning light
 lays upon your 
face
 spilling its sadness
 wearing your grief

we hold on trying
 to halt your slide
 under our hands
 leaves of skin flake
 to float the breeze,
 you are vanishing 

smile lines are 
erased
 a flawless mask
 takes their place,
 looking into the 
unknown
 you are lost in 
dreams

each day a knife of 
anguish
 carves at your 
mind
 you've forgotten
 the majesty of life
 and a love all 
carry for you 

suffering and 
misery
 stay behind in 
attendance
 we touch your 
center
 hoping to revive a 
spirit
 to no avail 

he would have 
wanted you
 dancing to the 
music of each day
 finding joy in a 
speck of light
 to love again and 
deeply
 with passion and 
flames

happiness was his 
mantel
 a laughing song of 
joy
 and a soul 
overflowing
 with hope,
 he was your 
everything,
 we can’t begin to 
understand

But,
 your presence is 
missing
 we have lost you 
both,
 I have cast spells
 and woven magic
 to bring you back 

I have prayed to a 
god
 I don’t believe in,
 with no answer,
 now
 I am lost to your 
sorrow
 I will join you in 
black
 until you are ready
 to come back to 
being again