Visitation
Dreamed about my mother
Who comes to me when I am in pain
Not to my reckoning through woo woo land
Otherworldly celestial plain
Implanted she was the first time
I was held warmly to her breast
As the antidote to what ails me
She comes when I am under test
In this dream of mine she was dying
We stood doing dishes side by side
With full acceptance she embraced what would be
In so doing helped me abide
With the fact to the swift the race
sometimes not won
No matter our regret
The past cannot be undone
We live with what
We live with till we live with it no more
At dreams end I found I was dying as well
From what's never killed me before
In traditional Chinese medicine
lungs attached to grief I'm grieving all the more
I grieve the loss of what I never had
An enigma yes that is my name
Made up in my mind or in truest of flesh
I loved you all the same
My mama came to tell me this
I have mourned you unto death
The wailing has stopped and soon now the thoughts that arrive with every breath
It will feel so good when it stops hurting
The very words she said
To hear these words she came to mind
Resurrected from the dead
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