h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

WOW! Normally, I'm not up on poetry. This piece may change my perceptions a bit.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for taking the time to comment. I haven't written anything for a long time. I think I'll dust off my pencil.

I think thats a fine idea and will look forward to further writings with anticipation.

Beautiful, yes it's very deep and moving. I like it a lot.

Thank you Emma.

Hypatia, this one choked me up. Seriously. I felt the pangs of that 'half life' and the sense of interminable waiting. I noted your own observation within the piece of how the person seemed to be fading into a distant, separate realm, almost physically parting from members of her family who see her slipping away in little ways and in large. This poem holds that undercurrent of bittersweet that only someone who has lost a loved can taste and eventually must find ways to savor. It speaks to those who watch and wait, while their loved one does likewise, but for a different reason.

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It touched a nerve in me, too.
Thank you

Thanks Rod. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The woman in the poem is based on my mother. For a very long time she has been here without being here, if you know what I mean.

Yes, Hypatia, I do know what you mean.
Not to quite the same extent, but still it was enough.

my regards
Rod