David Walker Poet Rhyme

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As You Departed

As You Departed
David J Walker

There is a certain beauty
Found in the dry sky hovering
Over your grave

But mother
	You were never dry

You were a thunderstorm 
Rumbling in the distance

You were a gray day 
That never cried in 
Public places

Your perfume was the cold
Humid winter air 

Promising to snow and 
Granting permission to stay
Out and play all day
In the cursive flow 
Of heavy flurries 
	
You were the enigma of ubiquitous
Lightning flashing in the morning
And evening as if each were 
the same time to you

You were the author of 
a chimeric vulgate 
	impossible to predict 
with any accuracy 

Mother 
	You were never dry
Even as I held your hand
As you departed

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