Monday, 4 December 2023

ONE MORE DAY by Becky Hemsley 2023


"ONE MORE DAY"
by Becky Hemsley 2023

If I could have just one more day with you…
I would hardly speak. I would simply listen to your voice and commit every tone of it to memory until it became my favourite melody.
I would look at you. I would study your eyes and your mouth, and I would learn every angle, every pane of your face until I could see you perfectly with my eyes closed.
I would hold your hand in mine. I would trace all the lines on your palm until they became a trail – a map - that I could retrace on my own palm every time I felt lost.
I would soak you up and breathe you in until there was not a single thing that I could not recall at a moment’s notice.
But more than anything, if I had one more day with you,
I would hold you.
I would hold you so tight, hoping that maybe if I didn’t let you go…
You wouldn’t.
Yes, if I had just one more day with you, I would hope… I would hope so hard…
that you wouldn’t have to leave again.
*****
Becky Hemsley 2023
Beautiful artwork by the immensely talented Illustre Mayon
'One More Day' is from the book When I Am Gone https://a.co/d/2ozvqjW

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