Waiting on a Grain

This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for March 2024 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here.

https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/

The image that this poem was specifically written about can be found here. (March 2024 – John Paul Caponigro's “Alignment II”)

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Waiting on a Grain

Goodbye I bid to you my love

Farewell I say to thee

For God has taken back to him

What has meant so much to me

And I will cry as many tears

That could fill the oceans whole

But never can I empty out the pain

That now wells up inside my soul

And long will I search for that place

Where the horizon meets the sky

If I could only touch them both

I could hold your hand in mine

And I will listen for the wind

That carries your voice to me

On its breeze, your gentle touch

A kiss, on lips, from thee

And I will sit by your grave

With its marble slab of stone

In the emptiness of that place

I shall carry on alone

And I will count the grains of sand

Falling through my hourglass

Waiting on that final day when we

Be together, in the by and by, at last

Submitted under MRB