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Without You by My Side: A Love and Loss Poem
Four short stanzas on the love that turns the impossible possible — and the ache of absence that quietly turns everything to nothing.
A list of paradoxes. Each one is the kind of thing only love can make true.
Snow in spring
Blues within
A waltz that slows time
Everything is fine
A moment engrained
Photographs that fade
A stranger in his town
Everything is upside down
A desert with blooming trees
Reality turned fantasy
An ocean of souls
Everything is possible with you
A clock that doesn’t move
A bird that doesn’t fly
Everything is nothing
Without you by my side
The paradoxes work in both directions. The right person makes the impossible feel inevitable. The absence of them makes the inevitable feel pointless. Both are true. The poem just lays them next to each other.
— JTC