1323 - Going Against The Grain

 

The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

This weeks words are: 

Bliss, leaping, memory, particles, arms, breath, story, pieces, heartache, beings, thunder, called

Going Against the Grain

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” 

– Ernest Hemingway.

In due course

They will return your ashes.

How do I reconcile

Those coarse beige particles

With the memories 

Of your warm embrace?

Being held in your arms?

Your rhythmic breath

As you slept beside me?

Our moments of heartache 

And moments of bliss?

The joy of laughing

In thunderstorms?

Of walking in the rain?

Of lying in the sun?

Just being together.

My mind hops from memory

To memory, leaping, weeping.

The story called life; 

A kaleidoscope 

Of pieces, 

Tumbling, 

Falling,

Recalling.

And now?  

What does the future hold?

A plastic box of ashes.

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