Left In A Jet
It was the time of happily ever,
After the changing of diapers,
The buying of toddler's toys,
Selecting of schoolbooks,
It was the time just after her surgery,
After the healing processed,
When the psyche still lingered in pain,
That's when! he ghosted her.
"Two beautiful children;" friends
shook their heads in lamentation,
Clouds absorbed him and his luggage,
For desertion was his forte.
Left In A Jet © gillena cox 2024
Each detail upon detail -vivid and so relatable- compounds the growing sadness of being "ghosted," at the moment of greatest happiness and need. The penultimate line, Gillena, is a masterpiece in itself. Great ekphrastic, as atmospheric as the painting.
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This is a great poem, and I love how you start it with the happily ever after...everthing that comes until the clouds absorb him. I'd like to think he was absorbed into some terrifying vortex!!
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I love how you start with the ‘time of happily ever’, Gillena, when you think life is sorted and you don’t expect to be ghosted. I especially like the hint that she is better off without a man whose forte is desertion, that ‘clouds absorbed him and his luggage’.
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"Clouds absorbed him" as though he was never there to begin with. Wonderful image!
ReplyDeleteIncredible how anyone can leave their own children and vanish in thin air!
ReplyDeleteGillena, I'm sorry you had to go through the agony from a someone you thought you'd be with forever.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the 'happily ever afer' ends so soon! Such vivid details, Gillena and I love " clouds absorbed him and his luggage".
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