Friday, June 22, 2012






Ghost Pains

Goodbye to you my dear
You have been gone
For most of a year
Ghost pains
From a limb taken away
Remind me how I could say
For you
I would burn the motherfucker
Down
It's true
But that would be
Just for the ghost
Of you and me
On Monday I'm on my way
To sign the papers
That say
The ghosts of me and you
Have gone, their separate,
Away

Chris McQueeney    6/22/12    9:31 P.M.

5 comments:

  1. So true to what I'm feeling now. Great write.

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  2. sad man....nice allusion to the ghost pain of a limb lost as well...its hard to let go but over time the pains do numb...and nice bring back to reality with the papers being signed on monday...

    how r u? how about ur little ones?

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  3. Guess Tuesday will be a new beginning then? *smiles*

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  4. You know how I feel...
    Bless you, and bless Kendra. I love you both.

    Good command of words. What follows is not really about you and Kendra but I think you will admit it is close by.

    Digging Holes

    How to hold myself
    still - what else can I do now?
    I have a brother
    who heats up his life.
    When loss gets too big he digs
    deep holes over all
    the garden as if
    he can drain the pain, the truth.
    All his energy
    flashes off into
    the space lanes, red messages
    bound for anywhere
    or he instead turns,
    takes small and careful sad steps,
    files his gray papers.

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  5. What's wrong with me? I am in tears. Tears making it hard to see.

    This is a powerful write, Chris. Poignant. An arrow. What can I say? It has to get better. If it didn't people wouldn't survive being haunted. And we all do.

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