Re: The Unposted

Reaper, there was something in the Atmosphere...I thought you were Sad, and if it wasn't you, then perhaps it was a mutual friend? and if so I trust that your honorable self will discretely redirect. As a fact, I had posted this poem nowhere, having been mostly ghosting--- moonlighting in a job that is drawing life blood from within daily. But fortuitously one night quite recently, I found this draft of mine scrawled in black, on a red graph paper pad, and felt compelled to share. The actual date of the writing falls somewhere between Oct 11 - Nov 16 2022. (I'd been tired, careless, negligent; my regrets! I can't peg it down with more exactitude, though I suspect its penning is closer to the turn of the month. 10/30? Seems fitting.)

In any case, soon after finding this scribbling of my own, I saw your posted challenge for works gone missing from 2022. And here, Dear Reaper, is what I'd wrote:

Condolences

My friend

I have always

held you in esteem

...is 8 years the marker

at which to leave off---

w/ Defeat?

surely the Pater

would object!

You raised

a defiant pen

and it says:

"Sign Nothing," yet!

I myself

am scarred

like a slug---

stains trailing

from an opening

left too long ajar

---what can I?

I tip this missing cap

as random passer'by

so that some words

might greet paper,

and carry on...

I'm sharing it with you, word for word even though not a Repost per se, because I wanted to let you know that this note, pitiful and vain as it may be, unblocked my writing that had gone under key in late 2020.

So-- Thank You & Sincerest Greetings--- I am glad to see you are making your way!