All I Wish

Slow starvation
My salvation
I couldn’t stop myself.

I kept on eating
Self defeating
Somewhere on the shelf.

I keep a list
Of targets missed
And all my reasons why.

I take a pen
Now and then
When I decide to try.

And add to it
New things , new me
New reasons to pursue.

Some of the things
I think might bring
A semblance of you.

A reason too
And things to do
To be a better me.

A person who
Resembles you
If you were here to see.

And hear somebody
We both know
Talk fondly of me.

I know him well
You used to spell
His initials in the sand.

We’d fling our sticks
Into the tide
And you would take his hand.

The strangulation
Isolation
Oceans still my breath.

Like flotsam
On the restless sea
I am now bereft.

I am adrift
And all I wish
Is that you’d never left.

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