MY INSPIRATIONS FOR THIS PIECE: “whose hearts are mountains, roots are trees, it’s they shall cry hello to the spring” — e e cummings
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Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Fragile & Vulnerable” by: rob kistner © 11/12/23
Making a gaudy show of leaving
hoping she would turn and stop him
walking out the door – he’s hoping
always looking back and hoping
wondering her change o’season
hoping it would matter to her
hoping that an empty place
would open in her heart
that only he could fill
he’s hurt and fragile
hoping his leaving
left such a void
hoping deeply
ever hoping
a lost leaf
blowing
away
sad
so
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as
a lone
brittle leaf
lost n’stranded on
life’s hardened highway
can be so easily crushed
by apathy’s traffic
so sadly hope
can too
be
but so too can be the surprising power of hope ~ if one strives !
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rob kistner © 2024
Poetry at: dVerse