Abandon us
just as the cold and dark
settle in
and we most need
the hard flint of your words
to strike a light on the page.
Go ahead, leave us.
I won't miss your
wit and wisdom,
your pithy profundities,
your erudite elderhostiles.**
Thank you writer-friend
for your word pictures,
your solid sentence structure,
the poems hewn
from pain and pleasure.
I will miss the shelter
of your words.
A.H.
*Mary E. is a writer and friend who is moving out-of-state. She has been an integral part of Saturday writing group.
**elderhostiles are Mary's vignettes about life at her senior housing complex.
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