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Reflections

watching fossils thaw

By Todd WorrellPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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Warm rays shone again today

Skin bathed in beginning

Shadows relegated to brief obscurity, and

Pleasantries surfaced from thawing places

Watching birds perch and mosquitoes fly

Spiders crawl while the beetle defiles

Worms celebrating another death knell

Black hound turns, and smiles again

I loved the way you laughed

When nothing was funny

When my world was closing in

Anxiety, sadness, lonely.

But you kept straight on laughing,

Nothing bothers you.

Loss, death, the pain of others,

a scarf you loan as a noose

And when corpses, leaves, and shoots

have cast their molds

dried bones and rotted roots will stir

lies buried, dormant and bold

how the days then passed and the decades ran

into this and that and the back of our hands

amid swollen tears and sunrise love

the fulgent rays and the flight of doves

can it quell the storm between these arms?

and right those wronged and bloated yarns

lest the crescent that shines between these ears

fall far from grace through briar patch years

set it down next to the waters edge

and write those words in the sifting grains

let waves contour those fears and dreams

become the sea, the sky, and the air you breathe

sad poetry
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