The Poems of David Garlick
“I’m sorry,” he mouthed to the faceless camera. Also to us, who had so hoped for a miracle. Elvis, there is no need to say sorry. You have given so much and we love you for it. With love, there is no need to seek forgiveness. We lived how hard you tried. What more […]
Leave me alone! I do not need the pain of half healed wounds torn open. I do not need the sting of tears held captive behind dulled eyes. Where were you when I waited in vain, for one small message, card or painting made for me? Now in my ending days you wish […]
Softly, softly, softly and now we are old! Where did all those years go? They were filled with seconds, minutes, days, weeks and months. Each, at the time, so important but now lost in forgetfulness. Strange how the mind censures the bad, leaving only the bright and positive. Those shadows are still there but […]
You know, it doesn’t hurt much when you are dead. But then you do a lot of lying still. You know, you don’t fear much when you are dead. But perhaps there is no adventure left to thrill. You know, you do not hunger much when you are dead. But then you do not need […]