Final Words

These cannot be the last words we speak,
For they do not definitively deliver the dreary
Emotions which are bound to cast
Me into turmoil for days or weeks…
A millennium of moments must still exist
Or else I am failing to acknowledge
My thinly veiled disbelief.
The words that have passed your lips,
Do not yet inspire a need for comfort
Or the yearning to retreat into my bedroom—
To curl within a blanket to bury my face
While the sheets dry my tears and keep me warm.
I have not yet begun to realize the ridiculous
Nature of human despondence,
Therefore a continued discussion must still
Be near. Final words do not promise
A continued dialog or mention
The possible occurrence of a next meeting.
A true farewell is copacetic in the mind
Of each member of the parting,
Because there exists both conclusions
And confessions—above all there is a mutual
Understanding that a tomorrow certainly
Does not exist. The words that have been spoken
Neither feel as though they have brought
Resolution, nor remedy to my fleeting sanity.
So I must believe I have yet to say goodbye
And I can continue to live my disjoint delusion,

And awake as if nothing has changed. 
       DannYetman
www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com

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