Slip Away-- a poem or song about loss, love and heartache for those gone.

 

Slip Away

 

The days stretch on like old country roads,

The sky impossible blues.

Your memory a haze of sun shimmered reflections,

But I travel on through.

Maybe if found the right words to say,

I’d lie to mother and the holy ghost

To keep us safe.

Don’t let me go

Don’t let me slip, slip away.

Your eyes spark as

Crinkled crows’ feet say,

The words I wished came easier

The words I couldn’t say

Don’t let me go

Don’t let me slip, slip away

Worlds swim by

And I’m in a glass bottom boat

Looking for you, looking back at me

My minds afloat.

Don’t let me go

Don’t let me slip, slip away

I think of all the things, too many to hold.

My mind’s scattered

 like debris on a highway shoulder,

Discarded remnants of yesterday’s decisions

My mind’s afloat

Don’t let me go

Don’t let me slip, slip away