April PAD 3: Cache

I wrote four different poems today in response to the prompt below. This one is my favorite:

without

me there 

would be

a gap wide 

enough in

which one 

could sink

 a tepid life,

of course not 

comparable to 

the one I live,

for I am a 

conservation 

specialist, 

a pack rat,

a hoarder.

with that 

space i 

would fit 

heartbreak 

in its own

  fleshy drawer;

squeeze in a 

lifetime's worth 

of laughter - 

and not just 

the giggly kind -

the sort of 

fat burning 

laughter that 

fills villages;

i'd shrink wrap 

answered prayers 

and stolen kisses; 

stuff the corners

with failures

disappointments

and the stuff

of borderline 

insanity.

without 

me

that chasm

would hold

someone less

concerned 

with

packing it

all in.

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Prompt: Write a poem in which you imagine the world without you

Today's Writing Setting: In between spoons of oatmeal on the couch.