Mount Sorrow and Loss

by Larry Chamberlin   Nov 16, 2015


On the cold mountain of my imagination your past lover cries;
we started marriage on the ashes of your last passion
then, I believed myself to be the ultimate winner:
I was the one who ran the slalom, claimed the prize.

Little did I know then how costly that success would become;
when she died, at her own hand, you mourned her,
you became isolated, climbing that alpine grief,
leaving me heartache for loss of your presence.

Even when you share my bed, she is a palpable sadness
lying in our sheets like grit or mountain boulders;
your soul wanders that lonely tor crying of her loss;
in the end, she has won the prize I had claimed.

[Prompted by Mel @
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=145166
my generated prompt was
"On the cold mountain of our imagination your past lovers cry"
This is written from the POV of my first wife.]

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  • 9 years ago

    by Meena Krish

    On the cold mountain of my imagination your past lover cries;
    we started marriage on the ashes of your last passion
    then, I believed myself to be the ultimate winner:

    ^^The opening lines here has set the mood and emotions with the very words "cold mountain, past lover, started marriage on the ashes of your last passion" to me it feels like this relationship started with a one way traffic. Where she has put in her all to be there for you when you were confronted with depression/sadness. Yet that emptiness for not having you fully as hers even though she claims has is not felt.

    Even when you share my bed, she is a palpable sadness
    lying in our sheets like grit or mountain boulders;

    ^^I can't get this imagery out of my head, its painful and it leaves an empty space between two hearts.

    your soul wanders that lonely tor crying of her loss;
    in the end, she has won the prize I had claimed.

    ^^Here I was wondering what the word tor meant and had to look it up, glad I did, learn something new everyday! The ending here leaves a painful loss. To think that a the one who has departed from this world has more of a grip on your love compared to the one who is still alive...

    Overall, this is a very sad sad write and I hope its really really not true, for this only turns a marriage sour...take care.

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