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Writer's pictureC. Reis

My Happy Place

I’m in Rhode Island for the week. It’s the same week we’d come every year. This year, I brought Court‘s ashes to spread in certain places we loved. It’s been bittersweet at most. I still see her here. Sitting on the deck, at the beach, while I’m out clamming. It’s hard but I’m grateful for the memories I have. She’s in a few places in Rhode Island. Places that meant a lot to us. all I know is I will forever carry her with me... she’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I just want to keep her memory alive.

7/23

I set you free in the ocean today

But your ashes sat and starred.


There was nothing more I wanted to see

Than for you to be standing there.


That’s the way you left me.

You left with no regard

The hole that you left in my heart is a hole that will forever be scared.


I’ve placed you at rest.

And watched you float away.

But why did you sit there starring at me today?

What did you have to say?


I watched the tide come in and out

You sat there starring still.

Was there a lesson I was supposed to learn as I set you free on the shore?


The ocean comes and goes.

The water ebbs and flows.

You can go anywhere you want...


To Greece or to australia

The Netherlands and beyond

But you sat there and stared,

Not wanting to go on.


Are you happy?

are you free?

Don’t get me wrong,

I’m glad that you sat with me.


But that is just dust.

It’s not love

And it’s not you.

The grey ash that they tell me is all i have left of you.


It’s fake

It’s a lie

This crazy dream I have inside.

A dream where you’re taken away

Never to return.

Never to be here,

A dream where you are never truly near.


Are you at peace?

Are you happy or sad?

Do you dream of the life we could have had?


I sit and I wait for you to return

But, how long can a heart hold onto that hurt?


You left so abruptly

I’m bitter and I’m sad.

I DO think of life

The life we could have had.


Now my life is not parallel,

It no longer flows

I only have the voice of you speaking the sound of your very last words.


“I love you” you said

Waiting for me to respond.

I was anxious and stressed.

“Love you too” I said

That was it under bated breath.


I hate those last words.

I wish I could turn back time and I knew.

I wish I knew it was the last time I’d be talking to you.


I wish that I knew.

I wish you were here.

That conversation haunts me.

It’s aways ringing in my ear.


I’m sorry I failed you.

My love, I truly am.

I would do anything to see you

To just hold your hand.


I hope that you’re resting at peace tonight

Knowing that our love is never out of sight.


It hurts.

I hurt.

I miss you so bad.

I just hope that you’re here with me

Waking with me,

Guiding me,

Holding my hand.


Maybe that’s what you were saying

Today by the shore,

That even though you’re gone

Our love will continue to soar.


I hope that you see me

That your happy and proud...


Of the things I have accomplished

Of the things I’ve had to do.

All of the things I’ve done.

The decisions I’ve hade to make

All the decisions without you.


I hate that you’re missing.

Though your spirits alive.

I miss the life I had.

The life with you by my side.


I hate that I’m not sharing my life

With the woman that I adore.

My love, what I’d do for just one moment more.


Rest easy tonight.

The moon is aglow

Continue your journey

Let our love ebb and flow.

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