As your cancer <br />twists & snarls <br /> <br />biting into your soul <br /> <br />it gnaws away <br />at my name <br /> <br />the pain unable <br />to pronounce it <br /> <br />DÓNALL <br />becomes <br />...ÓNALL. <br /> <br />Then...NALL. <br /> <br />Until <br />your dying day <br /> <br />I become simply <br />...AL. <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />THAT PLACE CALLED DAY(for Fran) <br /> <br />Later when I looked <br />for you <br /> <br />(you were gone) <br /> <br />you had turned <br />into Time <br /> <br />your hair <br />turned into time <br /> <br />your tears <br />turned into Time <br /> <br />nothing I could hold <br />nothing I could touch <br /> <br />(love trying to hold <br />on to everything) <br /> <br /> <br />as the winds of Time <br />...blew it all away. <br /> <br />I walked away <br />into that place <br /> <br />called <br />Day <br /> <br />(you know that place) <br />between morning & night <br /> <br />that place <br />where you <br /> <br />no longer are <br />that place <br /> <br />that you have left <br /> <br />that place where you exist <br /> <br />only <br />in my mind. <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br />LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND(for Fran) <br /> <br />She strips off <br />her body <br /> <br />right down <br />to her soul. <br /> <br />At last <br />she feels <br /> <br />whole.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-can-call-me-al-for-fran/
