Atypically, she was alone
and silent,
wig askew,
all the muzak shut away
behind her half-closed door.
I knew that she had also drawn
the blinds within her mind,
to soften the impetuosity
of joy.
She struggled
to pull back the thoughts
that like a child
would run away too soon--
reminding me again
that all the "simple things"
she ever thought or said
elude her;
then the love that she had stored within
emerged to let me hear her say,
"I am so thankful
for my family."
Her 97th year, a time
for facing new goodbyes,
new deaths in her to come,
that we will string upon the fraying tie
that flesh alone will bind.
Then in parting our embrace extended
past my equanimity; I stepped inside
the elevator, closed the door,
and thus once parted from her
struggled unsuccsessfully
to don my streetwise smile.
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Categories:
atypically, age,
Form: Free verse
Atypically, she was alone
unsmiling,
wig askew,
with all the songs shut out
behind her half-closed door.
I knew that she had also drawn
the blinds within her mind,
to soften the impetuosity
of joy.
She struggled
to pull back the thoughts
that like a child
would run away too soon--
reminding me again
that all the "simple things"
she ever thought or said
elude her;
then the love that she had stored within
emerged to let me hear her say,
"I am so thankful
for my family."
Her 97th year, a time
for facing new goodbyes,
new deaths in her to come,
that we will string upon the fraying tie
that flesh alone will bind.
There in parting our embrace extended
past my equanimity; I stepped inside
the elevator, closed the door
and then once parted from her,
struggled on my own
to smile
~
Categories:
atypically, mother, me,
Form: Free verse
such sensuality
the rhythm of eventuality
chokes on actuality
from overactivity
of hyperthalimity
that beats arhythmically
at the heat of atypically
love for you specially
when you go sexually
over too testily
wrecking the best in me
i asked for a way to be
blamed for the blasphemy
taking the infamy
waking the infantry
calling the cavalry
to act as a salvage-tree
for my act of eagerly
seeking to be
part of a
way to be
free from the
laws and the
lies that are
taking your
heart and then
dissing it against the wall.
Categories:
atypically, [faith, happiness, inspirational], [faith,
Form: I do not know?