August 2022
Bio Note: I am retired, and have been married to my wife Michelle for 45 years. We lost our younger son Shaun last year to colon cancer and my book of poems about losing him will be published by Bamboo Dart Press on August 10, 2022. The book's name is Missing Shaun. Here are some poems from the book.
022621 6:58 PM
these days
exhaust us
we are worn
to the bone
stare out
through
vacant eyes
long for
human touch
and if we
have lost a
loved one
breathe in
our
loneliness
I can never
say goodbye
the mist
of your memory
is always
in the air
yet
tomorrow you
will not be here
again
so
just for practice
goodbye
just today I
mourn the death
of a star
as I watch
it blink out
long gone
before we
wrote our
first words
©2022 Thomas R. Thomas
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