My mother cried
when I was a child...
Standing on familiar soil
I see the echoes...
Those grey years of angst,
Of treading water in a sea of tears...
It's a new year, so
let's celebrate...
Your words,
when they came as whispers...
O' how I miss and mourn for mother's voice
That swiftly passed like Autumn's southern breeze...
seven geese swim seven skies
across the wetlands, marsh, and tides...
When music no longer
soothes the savage beast...
The clock does not know
it will continue ticking...
as morning breaks, my heart does too
I hear the blackbirds songs of blue...
Night born skies
delivered within majestic fantasies...
Holidays were
always coarse...