Day 31- Dear Dream

Dear Dream,
When I woke, you weren't beside.
Dear Dream,
I think I sensed a goodbye.

Lightning flickering,
I remember my days with your heart.
In my commonsense wisdom,
it's strange, our time apart.

I'm under no illusions;
you were a rare find.
A way that lessened my ache,
making my sorrows seem worthwhile.

When I can no longer write,
I hope you will be okay.
I wish you hadn't left,
though I know why it's that way.

Dear Dream,
When I woke, I cried.
Dear Dream,
I think I sensed a goodbye.


Source: Paul's letters to Adrienne, Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

Day 30- Kaleidoscope

Source: Chapter 16, Nights in Rodanthe
by Nicholas Sparks

Day 29- Afloat

A reverse erasure

Source: Chapter 14, Nights in Rodanthe
by Nicholas Sparks

Day 28- Big Bang

A reverse erasure :)
Source: Chapter 13, Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

Day 27- What Love Was

The world dissolving into something
distant wasn't love.
The dream outside
the sky wasn't love.
The rush of intuitive
feeling wasn't love.

The product of a few
words wasn't love.
The inability to keep a feud
going wasn't love.

Waiting for a
response wasn't love.

The will to repair
the rift wasn't love.
"I'm sorry" wasn't love.
Comfort, half in the shadow of
storm, wasn't love.

A promise to make it
through wasn't love.
A dance of give and
take wasn't love.
Making
love wasn't love.

To know what to do 

was almost meaningless.

It was a combination
of a thousand things,
but it wasn't love. 

Source: Chapter 12, Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

 

Day 26- Roll the Dice

When hoping for

a lucky roll of the dice,

get things ready.

Consider possibilities

both close and far away.

Connect sea to sky.

Feel the pull

of the swirling wind, far

from anything that could be.

Collide with awkwardness

two and a half feet wide

and six feet high.

Soft pedal what happened,

mentally outlining repairs.

Label intensity.

Plan on falling in love.

Hold back

the ravages of time.

In the aftermath of purpose,

become a whisper.


Source: Chapter 11-12, Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks