I Can't Ever Reach To Find You...

 PAD Challenge 23: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “I Can’t (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

 So much slips from touch so fast...

I can’t ever reach to find you

Soft you waft from dawn to dawn

My clenched fingers cannot bind you

One day here, the next you’re gone

I can’t ever turn to touch you

Save in rendezvous of thought

After you have lent your virtue

After I have spent your lot

I can’t ever have a redo

Once-in-a-lifetime; Today

So I must make the most of you

Before you slip-slip away

I can’t see you save in faces

Places, graces you estrange

God, help me before Thought traces

Everything nothing can change

© Janet Martin