Sunday, September 30, 2018

freeze frame

Some moments they tag along with you in your memories, and sometimes tug gently at your heart...


photo by Anemone123 at pixabay



freeze frame



when is a second an eternity?
and the pain a freeze frame?
the heart bleeds
                   razor blades
the lights of the city
hides their faces and fades
i
see this frame
over and over again
so many years
she sits here on the floor
the cold ceramic tiles
shadows cross every room
she has been brave
she is brave
but now her tears
big as pearls
rolling down
          down
her quivering cheeks
of the thousands of people
at the hospital that day
she asks
WHY MUST IT HAVE TO BE ME?!

and then
there are no more shadows in the rooms
as the darkness
creeps in
and
devours us.


28/09/2018
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© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2018

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18 Comments:

Blogger Sherry Blue Sky said...

This is so very moving, Lee San. A moment of grief captured in time that you will carry forever.

30 September, 2018 22:15  
Blogger brudberg said...

The longest second on earth... love how you captured that frozen moment, a pivotal point I feel right at the end (or the beginning of a painful process)

01 October, 2018 00:01  
Blogger Susan said...

Yikes! Not many times in my life does the frame freeze and time stop--but when it happens it is most always dire, a swallowing by darkness as you describe here. Even rarer is the happiness freeze frame so bright it is almost unbearable. This poem is itself a frame, one that brings history into focus. Thank you.

01 October, 2018 02:56  
Blogger Mary said...

This very poignant, moving, sad. Your poem really causes us to FEEL the situation you created.

01 October, 2018 03:06  
Blogger tonispencer said...

We both of us wrote on the darkness winning this week. Sometimes it certainly seems that way

01 October, 2018 04:12  
Blogger Wendy Bourke said...

You have done a stunning job of hanging this compelling and hauntingly rendered poem on a brilliant title. Awesome writing!

01 October, 2018 04:43  
Blogger ZQ said...

A very powerful piece.
ZQ

01 October, 2018 05:19  
Blogger Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...

I could answer your first two questions for myself – but you have answered them beautifully for yourself, albeit with deepest sadness ... sadness and tenderness.

01 October, 2018 05:44  
Anonymous dsnake1 said...

Sherry,

"A moment of grief captured in time that you will carry forever."
it is.


Bjorn,

thank you.
a pivotal point. oh yes.


Susan,

thank you for the insightful comment. why do we humans seem to remember more sad moments than happy ones?

01 October, 2018 15:40  
Anonymous dsnake1 said...

Mary,

thank you! :)


Toni,

yes, what a coincidence! but i believe there will always be light after the darkness.


Wendy,

brilliant title, thank you! i think the title sums up the poem pretty well. :)

01 October, 2018 19:56  
Anonymous dsnake1 said...

ZQ,

Thank you!


Rosemary,

:)
thank you!

01 October, 2018 20:11  
Anonymous Colleen Looseleaf said...

You nailed that moment of pain and the freeze frame it creates.

01 October, 2018 23:05  
Blogger Sanaa Rizvi said...

Oh gosh this is incredibly evocative!

02 October, 2018 01:01  
Blogger Gillena Cox said...

Those why me questions happen to be the saddest and most unanswerable.

A very moving write Cheon Lee san

much love...

02 October, 2018 02:51  
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much love
gillena

02 October, 2018 02:52  
Blogger dsnake1 said...

Colleen,

thank you! :)


Sanaa,

Thank you! :)


Gillena,

Yes, those 'why me?' questions are the saddest.
thanks for dropping by.

02 October, 2018 17:13  
Blogger A Cuban In London said...

Oh, this one got me. I don't know why. Perhaps because I am going through a "delicate" moment myself. But your poetry touches those places we think are unreachable. Thanks.

Greetings from London.

06 October, 2018 07:24  
Blogger dsnake1 said...

i will always remember those tears and her words. it's heart-wrenching.
always glad to see you around. :)

06 October, 2018 21:47  

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