#WritingPrompt #ShansPoetryPrompt: polaroid moments, write a poem about a moment you wish you’d captured

Poetry: An Echo

‘Looking for pieces of broken hourglass / Trying to get it all back, put it back together / As if the time had never passed’ — Fall Out Boy, Bishops Knife Trick

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

Warning: this one got a little heavy on the grief…

Let me go back
please

to before

my heart

split into fragments

— crystalline shards of glass
which I tire
of pasting back together
yet again.

Some of the pieces are
always missing.
Atomised to infinity.

(You took them with you
into whatever passes
for eternity.)

I wish I could parcel each moment,
capture your voice, your smile,
on hours of video,
the sparkle of your eyes in a picture.