Realistic Poetry is proud to announce the 2015 Saving Lives with Poetry contest winner

Realistic Poetry is proud to announce the 2015 Saving Lives with Poetry contest winner, Alan Epps! Your poem was chosen for first place and you have won $100.00! Thank you for participating!

http://www.realisticpoetry.com/poetry-contest

Here is the winning poem written by Alan Epps, entitled, 'Togethered'.

 

 

 

Togethered / By Alan Epps

 

I wanted to write a short poem
To tell you I love you
But I wasn't sure how to say it
Thought it was more important to display it
Because we know words are cheap
And action is real
If we want to let a person
Know how we feel
We should show it
A lot more than we should say it

After so many years
I came to understand that love includes appreciation
It's one of the things
That cannot suffer depreciation
If I appreciate
You know that I care
And, if I care
You know love is there

So I'll dispense with the words
And pull you towards me
So you have no doubt
I would never ignore you
Because we only ignore
What we don't understand
And I implore you
To give me a hand
In paying attention
And sharing appreciation
It's the only way
To bridge the egregious separation
That pervades an arbitrary space
That we characterize as a nation

Never forget that gratitude
Merely from the presence of another
Is a most righteous attitude
And it is the glue
That brings a whole world together

A universal tether
You know we could live
Forever togethered.

 

Here is the link to get to the 2016 contest:

http://www.realisticpoetry.com/poetry-contest