Love’s Losses
Taking notes
From an internal sky
Insisting
On our own suffering
With desire
Exchanging one pain
For another
In the dark awkward
Corners
Of ourselves
Where we question
Certainty
In the aftermath
Of destruction
With the pieces
Of our striving
Falling fast
And hard
Into the tragedy
Of each new
Love
Slow Down
I work to live
I do not
Live to work
I find
Slowness
Is the key
To finding
One’s rhythm
With the beat of nature
In our hearts
And the simple joys
Found in moments
Of fine wine
And new found cheeses
From the Loire valley
Living life as priority
Not ambition
Rejoicing
In the pleasure
Of taking things
As they come
Measured
With every action
Magnified
By a delicate
Intentional peace
And living
How we’d like life to be
Now
Off
The fundamentals
Of death
Are simple
And to the point
No sense in beating
Around the bush
We are here
And then we are
No more
The ending unimportant
The fundamentals
Of everything
A flickering
Of a battered eye
And a shivering
At the core
Us
The stories
We tell ourselves
Are the lives
We create
Each one unique
In essence
In and of itself
Unto itself
Rolling into
A flattened tomorrow
Lost in the tale
Of something
Beyond redemption
John Drudge is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry: “March” (2019), “The Seasons of Us” (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.
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