FORGOTTEN LETTER

BY JOEL THOMPSON

I’ll use a flower petal for paper,
to write you this forgotten letter.
When days pass us by
my stitched-up heart keeps drifting back
to the moments you drowned my sorrows,
breathing me to life — with glazed eyes
encouraging me to press forward.
Capturing stillness, remembered for eternity,
a delayed reflection, silhouetting a promised love.
Through motionless time, our hearts severe,
strings of shattered dreams.
Seeking a fervency which crashes upon
the doors of twilight serenades.
Burning around secret turnings of the soul;
sunset lips set fire to damaged pasts,
mending broken memories of happiness.
I’ll place a seal upon this forgotten letter
from the flower petal used for paper. | JT

JOEL THOMPSON GREW UP IN OREGON, NEVADA, AND INDIANA IN AN ITALIAN AND IRISH FAMILY. HE STARTED TO WRITE SERIOUSLY IN THE AP CREATIVE WRITNG CLASS DURING HIS SENIOR YEAR. HE HAS CONTINUED THROUGHOUT HIS TIME IN THE NAVY, COLLEGE, AND NOW PRISON.

Forgotten Letter By Joel Thompson

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