One Poem by Lynda Tavakoli

 

SO MUCH WASTED GOOD

In his sickness

someone tells him

there will be a tomorrow

for those others,

that beyond their

raw-boned wasting

there are skeletons

they must still call hope.

Yet, one more year ebbs

as a world moulders

in its own self-interest,

knowing that the saddest

truth is just how much good

he could have done,

and didn’t.

Lynda Tavakoli lives in County Down, Northern Ireland, and is a professional member of The Irish Writers Centre. She has won several international poetry and short story awards and been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Lynda’s recent poetry collection ‘A Unison of Breaths’ is published by Arlen House and her digital book with video ‘Unbroken/The Gaza Poems’ is published by Live Encounters Publishing.