Board :Poetry
Author :Archon Poems
Subject :1st Place by Droplet
Date :11/13
Disconnect





I think to the moments
when bonds almost form,
when a hand, so warm,
misses its mark.
The stark silence.
The nameless lament.

We never know
what coud have been.
We fake a grin
and move on
but something is gone,
something precious
that felt like the truth.

Tomorrow still comes.
The moon and the sun
and the vast spinning earth
don't care that two hands
just barely didn't touch.
It might not amount to much,
but to us it's loss.

We're tossed apart sometimes
and land on different tracks.
The odds are stacked
against those hands
but still we demand
the resonant depths
of each other.

And as our voices echo
into the caverns between us,
one lonely hand reaches out,
again and again and again,
never truly giving in.



~Droplet