$500.00 & Publication HEART 18
Love Past the Grave by Peggy Wang Granville, Ohio
LOVE PAST THE GRAVE
After death, random memories
clutter the heart,
as old receipts clutter drawers.
But what is love that lasts
long after reading the emailed obit
that dropped like a bad penny
three months after the fact?
What is love after death?
The memorized body
can never be touched again.
The familiar voice will never answer
with affection or annoyance.
Dream visitations opened lockets
that snap close upon waking.
There is no plot to visit,
no stone on which to place a pebble.
I cannot ask him what he remembered
of me, of us when passion
made us clash in ways both
maddening and tender.
Love past the grave is
something out of nothing.
An empty shell held to the ear–
a sea breathing
from inside
still
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"I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence. We need to listen to God because it's not what we say, but what He says to us and through us that matters." ~Mother Teresa
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