Poetry: An Echo

Originally published in the Medium publication 'The Brain Is A Noodle' for the prompt '#WritingPrompt #ShansPoetryPrompt: polaroid moments, write a poem about a moment you wish you’d captured' set by the lovely Lucy Dan



Warning: grief

An Echo

‘Looking for pieces of broken hourglass

Trying to get it all back, put it back together

As if the time had never passed’

 — Fall Out Boy, Bishops Knife Trick

Image by Jürgen from Pixabay

Let me go back
please

to before

my heart

split into fragments

— crystalline shards of glass
which I tire
of pasting back together
yet again.

Some of the pieces are
always missing.
Atomised to infinity.

(You took them with you
into whatever passes
for eternity.)

I wish I could parcel each moment,
capture your voice, your smile,
on hours of video,
the sparkle of your eyes in a picture.

But it wouldn’t be true.
It wouldn’t be you.

No matter how high-definition,
it could never be the same.

Still, I wish I could
hear your voice
again,
even if it would only
be
an echo
of yesterday’s love

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