Round Rock Writers Day 10 prompt: Remember tomorrow.

Dwell not on future’s past.
Live behind the citadel walls of today.

Regret is real and tightly sealed.
Fear takes its share of precious time.

We bear the pain as best we can.
Suffering brands upon mind’s memory.

Close the coffin on a life of pain.
Once life is lived, the end is done.

Look both ways in time and space but live the life you have.
Mind the gaps for pain and pleasure, but one go is all you get.

Day 10 NaPo prompt. Write a poem that is a meditation on grief in the style of Geoffrey Brock’s poem, “Goodbye.”

When Great Love is not Reality

Great love allows great pain to
open the door to suffering’s
march into the mind
where it sits on tempest’s trigger.

(Will life’s complete happiness
ever return to my heart and soul?
Are we both lost lives or has
a secret page merely turned over?)

She pulls you into hell on earth
until we no longer see the other
and the greatest love loses
to the hard measure of pleasure.