Goodbye Mother - Soon a Dozen Years Since Demise
Her cremated ashes scattered to all the four winds
White, powdery and chalk like material
Devoid of any vestigial semblance
To her once living and vibrant self
That unique persona pulverized and vaporized
(Housed former svelte and tall Arthur Murray
Ballroom dance teacher
A half-century plus prior to demise
Which beauty, charm and grace
Quickly caught the attention of my father,
Who courted and eventually proposed
To this young flirt and ingenue tease of a gal)
Inert organic matter now represents
Sole residual embodiment
Reduced to dust and near nothingness
Former corporeal being of blood, bone and flesh
Weighing no more than
A dozen hatch marks on the scale
Absence still bears down heavy
Like some millstone round the neck
Per the black hole void
Created by defeat with Grim Reaper
Toward this woman
Who helped birth and nurse me into manhood
Momma’s only grown son
Still feel ripples of grievous sadness
No matter the years of suppressed anger and rage
In addition to emotional conflicts between us
Which invariably wrought unpleasant relationship
And a legacy of discord writ large
Across the tapestry of my life.
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