WISHES TIME FORGOT
Giving joy is easy, letting go is not. I gave to you my deepest wish but wishes, time forgot. There were days of sun and laughter, there were days of play. There was time to walk with you long before I lost my way. I cannot think upon great love or what I would have done if memory dared not send me back and reawaken one.
Kelly, the opening line carries so much emotional weight because it places generosity and release side by side with real ache. The poem feels like memory returning before the heart is ready, especially in the movement from sun, laughter, and play into the grief of a wish time no longer seems to hold. That final turn toward great love and reawakened memory leaves the reader with the tenderness of something cherished and painful at once. Grateful for the restraint and feeling you brought to a poem that says a great deal in very few lines.
This is really beautiful, Kelly. It has such a quiet sadness to it. That feeling of looking back on something that once held so much joy, but now hurts to remember… you captured that so well.