GRIEF Poem: Love Ruminations, by Oliver Cocks

Arms enfold,
legs entangle

Battering memories
change to sighs,

in my mind’s room
of reliving

Remember meeting
in

light?
honeyed

Remember lying
in

entwined
bedsheets?

A bottle of lip balm
A letter, never opened

A copy of Bowie’s pop

These are all objects
that linger in the memory

These are keepsakes
of a love that forever thunders

in the caverns of the mind,
and always resounds

Remember the myriad caresses
that wrought us both?

Remember, yes, remember,
we can only, now, remember

Cherish these ruminations,
never let them ebb

Because they honour a bond
that teemed more than any,

that out-twinkled every star,
and that must always be revered.