Waiting on a Grain
Ekphrastic Challenge March 2024
This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for March 2024 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here.
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The image that this poem was specifically written about can be found here. (March 2024 – John Paul Caponigro's “Alignment II”)
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Waiting on a Grain
Goodbye I bid to you my love
Farewell I say to thee
For God has taken back to him
What has meant so much to me
And I will cry as many tears
That could fill the oceans whole
But never can I empty out the pain
That now wells up inside my soul
And long will I search for that place
Where the horizon meets the sky
If I could only touch them both
I could hold your hand in mine
And I will listen for the wind
That carries your voice to me
On its breeze, your gentle touch
A kiss, on lips, from thee
And I will sit by your grave
With its marble slab of stone
In the emptiness of that place
I shall carry on alone
And I will count the grains of sand
Falling through my hourglass
Waiting on that final day when we
Be together, in the by and by, at last
Submitted under MRB
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Rae Fairchild (MRB)
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Comments (2)
Beautiful!
This was so poignant and emotional. Loved your poem!