Daily Poem: Past Tense ~ Laura Winkelspecht

December 6, 2018 | Filed Under Poem for Hela | No Comments

Past Tense
~ Laura Winkelspecht

I still find myself talking
about you in present tense
like you’re still here
to add tales to our story,
but our verbs occupy
the past now,
a dying language
where I am the last
fluent speaker
longing for just one more
conversation.

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