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
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