A Year Ago Today

A year ago today
Raised celestial on dry timber
Descending to earthly clay
Fronting ticking life reminder

That day … what a day.

That day
Little morning singer visited
Met it roaming lost
We welcomed, we grew delighted
Oblivious of cost
He graveled, comforted
Then deceased

A year ago today … now a yesterday.

Awaiting that yesterday
I embraced long lost love
Simple and sincere
He kissed my dermal glove
Farewell to dusk, I fear
Shear and tear
Then carried with me the rear

September seventeen, that day,

Sixteen here
Duty had me absentminded
Fluffed my blood traces

Father called
He called
They called
And I recalled

Forefather forthwith deceased
Tears, pure traces
Dripping, oh it still aches
My star aches

Until today.

Until today.
Scarred me, profoundly.
Saddened me, indefinitely.
Haunted me, gracefully.

Until today.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 11:08pm

Not Only

Only questions
Questions to comfort the inconvenient
Convenience ... to where the breeze blows?

Only seeing
Seeing heals the wound of uncertainties
Uncertainties kill the spirit

Only reason
Reason peels the mold from beauty
The beauty of limitations and failures

Only truth
Truth that sets you ablaze with zeal
Zeal comes rushing out through the door of faith

Not only, but faith
Faith tears bills of indebtedness
Faith clings to a mother's instinct
Faith, only, traces to the well of meaning

Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 10:27pm