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Post by althea on Nov 16, 2023 16:02:33 GMT
When you look at me
Who is it that you see?
Do you remember me?
When I look into your eyes
I can see, with surprise
That you don't recognise
Or remember me.
It makes me sad because I care,
I know you're still in there
Somewhere.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 6, 2024 13:18:44 GMT
Apr 28, 2013
Ooh the trivial dilemmas of modern life
In a paperless world where digital is king
and the password to memories is everything
I had two sons
and I dearly loved them both
Yet I could never communicate
That love
Now....I am at the bottom of a huge crevasse
It feels like someone has slashed my wrists
This life is now oozing out of me
Cutting into my soul
As losing one son has revealed
Not just a weakness in me
but....a huge hole
Where my tears are now falling
There is regret
Regret for my own failures
If only?if only I could have taken his place
Then it would be him standing
weeping here today not me
Rest in peace now my son
and....unbury me.....
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Post by toots on Mar 6, 2024 13:42:49 GMT
Apr 28, 2013 Ooh the trivial dilemmas of modern life In a paperless world where digital is king and the password to memories is everything I had two sons and I dearly loved them both Yet I could never communicate That love Now....I am at the bottom of a huge crevasse It feels like someone has slashed my wrists This life is now oozing out of me Cutting into my soul As losing one son has revealed Not just a weakness in me but....a huge hole Where my tears are now falling There is regret Regret for my own failures If only?if only I could have taken his place Then it would be him standing weeping here today not me Rest in peace now my son and....unbury me..... Heartbreaking rikii, I remember when it happened. 💔 |
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 6, 2024 18:58:58 GMT
There's a little more daylight
Coming in every day
As the mist in my eyes
Is slowly clearing away
My focus is returning
Memories are blocking my view
My whole world is empty
Empty without you
Spring is gathering a pace
Flowers are bursting into bloom
Even their convoluted blossoms
Cannot alleviate my gloom
I could think of a thousand reasons
Why you made me laugh and cry
Yet when it comes to your passing
I never heard you say goodbye
There are many things I should have said
but now you'll never get to know
As all those thoughts were in my head
For my real love I could not show
I can shout it now
and hold my head up in pride
but I wished I'd said I loved you son
Much more before you died.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 6, 2024 22:57:17 GMT
I'm ok with other people
By myself I'm on the brink
Too many memories
Too much time to think
These days are dragging by
Being busy with nothing to do
Clouds are still covering my sky
Lost in thoughts of you
Summer is finally coming
Creeping nearer every day
Each day's a little warmer
Thoughts still get in my way
The nights I cannot sleep
My dreams now can't come true
When alone I still weep
In dreams I'm still with you....
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 7, 2024 8:04:39 GMT
Too soon my rose your petals fade
Bleached by sun free from shade
Where honey bees rolled had their fill
In your nectar yearning insects swill
Ever graceful,fragrant,beauteous
Grateful are we you shared with us
A perfume delicate to tease one's nose
So much so I do propose dear rose
To collect your floating petals as they fall
Treasure them in a potpourri in my hall
So my home is too reminiscent
Of you dear rose truly, heaven sent....
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Post by althea on Mar 7, 2024 10:09:06 GMT
I particularly love the Rose poem.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 8, 2024 12:27:36 GMT
For all those who have lost loved ones
This has been a most trying year
It is so hard not to think about them
Even though they are no longer here
The empty spaces they have left
Seem to have torn your world apart
Nothing can prepare anyone
For the emptiness within your heart
Their idiosyncrasies their traits
That which makes them just one of a kind
Those things that we all took for granted
We now discover when we are left behind...
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 8, 2024 13:25:50 GMT
Sometimes I wonder what you would do
If it wasn't me here today but you
Perhaps like me you'd take a while
To reflect on things and then reconcile
I can think of things a thousand reasons
From the sunniest Spring to winter seasons
Yet....I can't find a chink however small
Why I should not thank you for them all
Like the Sun in the morning then all day
Darkness covers us taking our light away
Now Iam resolved as is to be my destiny
To endure sleepless nights as they must be
Still...I can now muse on others that have passed away
Remembering them too each in their own way
As now I realise on my sleepless night shift
Loving someone special's no chore, it's a precious gift.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 8, 2024 13:33:32 GMT
Love is not a shoulder to cry on
It's a tiny teardrop in an eye
Its not the moment of someone's passing
Its the shattering sound of goodbye
It maybe a thrill to romance
Better still to kiss
To chance to hold to squeeze and laugh
That's what lovers miss.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 8, 2024 22:35:40 GMT
There are too few words (In my vocabulary)
To describe how much I miss you
No end to the darkness
That every day brings
No song to bring cheer
Or bird tweet to stir me
Yet a thousand smiles
With eyes that sought out my soul
Everything you meant to me
Buried deep
Deep inside my head
Until now when it is too late
I can see what you really were
Not just my sunshine
But my shining star
My hopes my dreams
My todays and tomorrows
My reasons to be and to see
The impetus,motivation and inspiration
My soul sought
To trundle around the treadmill
With ever decreasing speed
As the avalanche of time
Roars down the small mountain
That was of me and my life.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 12, 2024 19:01:04 GMT
Remember me for my laughter
Never for my tears
As there is no ever after
That won't be many years
Remember me with a grin
And hold that thought a while
A smile is where to begin
When we try to reconcile
Remember me as someone
Who's rather do a good turn not bad
As someone who's been and gone
Having had the best time one could have had.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 13, 2024 22:45:40 GMT
This life's road I'm travelling
Is making me blue
I feel my life unravelling
Because I miss you
I've tried to make headway
On this one way street
But this aint my way
To feel the Earth beneath my feet
The direction I'm moving
Takes me futher from you
But my life aint improving
With the lack of you
I tell myself keep moving
But pain still follows me
Cutting a deeper groove in
The very heart of me.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 19, 2024 8:23:14 GMT
There's a depth of longing
Way beyond despair
That describes the way I feel
Now you're no longer there
The uneasiness of breath
The monotony of every day
The emptiness and lonliness
Never goes away
Yet, there are reasons
Why I must carry on
As while I draw breath
Your memory will ne'er be gone.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 19, 2024 13:58:22 GMT
I,very written quite a few of these, not everyone's in unison here anymore, sadly. R.
It's rememberance day
But what do we say
We'll remember them
What about their laughter
What about their pain
They had no ever after
How can we explain
How we shall remember them
With a few old pictures
Some sacred scriptures
a ceremony at the cenotaph
we can almost hear them laugh
Is that all we were worth
A cross and a heap of earth
Yes this is how we remember them
Thousands lined in rows
Still..... their number grows
There is no reason why
They're not here for apple pie
Just do your shift and die
You don't get to say goodbye
That's why.... we remember them....silently
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