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Growth
Where Eagles glide on faith
Where sunrays are prismatic
Where raindrops are quenching
Where snowflakes are distinctive
Where poppy fields never die
Where lush grasses cover mountainsides
Where dreams stretch higher
Where children swing on laughter’s
Where all chasms are bridged
Where the sun meets its shadows
Where lakes are a truly reflective
Where sandy beaches are inviting
Where rivers of truth flow forever
Where a casting moon showers
Where lost hearts rediscover love
Where tears are replaced by smiles
Where gentle hands are caring
Where fingertips are for painting
Where trees sway in endless breezes
Where sadness drift away like tumbleweeds
Where our cherished memories are relived
Where wrongs are only futile
Where rights are what’s normal
Where nothing remains the same, continually
Where grief becomes suspended
Where death of all life is abated
Where every day’s go on and on
Where you have gone… I will follow’
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Poet of the Light © 2021
a/k/a Daddy…
Spoilage
When it comes to the finality of a death
You drown in sobering understandings
A lifetime of proverbial seconds chances
Were squandered away by justified pride
Unlike love- grief is an all-consuming fog
Pervading places you never knew existed
And grief taste like a bitter root of death
Lingering in pores of our unconsciousness
So as to make even our greater days sour
Curdling all fond memories of our beloved
Making us question fidelity of our sanity
Love- the only thing to salvage our palate
Rescue our broken hearts from the sadness
Restore our lost hope… until we’re reunited
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Deliverances
I know it’s wintertime here
Even snow has fallen a few times
But it’s colder than it should feel
As I stand here alone waiting
Tears are falling from my eyes
But that’s no big surprise, is it?
Imagining you here too
I think about all the things I’d say
Like I love you endlessly child
And thank you for being a blessing
I know I never felt safer than
When we were together laughing
Or the warmth of your embrace
The promise of daybreak peeks
Over the horizon just slightly
And my heart beats a bit faster
Cause I believe you hear me talking
Tell me, show me- somehow
You’re happy and better now
We can both make-believe together
Just like when you were a child dancing
The light breaks through my tears
Like a thousand waves crashing
In this secret seat of silence
I feel the breeze wrap around me
With the warmth of all your memories
And now I can’t stop crying
As all my fears slowly lay down
Believing you’re found… in every dawn
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Pitfalls
Most of these last three weeks
Have been pretty much a blur
The weather casually changed
It tried snowing and got colder
I used to secretly welcome snow
For me, winter is a sacred season
Far too many people overlooked
I paid no attention to its occurring
Nor did I find enjoyment of flakes
Life went about its own business
While I remained mostly reluctant
My thoughts became more pensive
For the soul of my lost inspiration
Only residing now…in remembrances
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Dicey
I’ve become more keenly aware
Of my present footsteps these days
The sound they make in transition
And even their ephemeral echoes
Which to me, speaks in multivolume
Randomly I ask those odd questions
To where do echoes flee to and land?
Is it always to some familiar place?
What happens after they arrive there?
Might it be where unheard whispers go?
And if so, do echoes and whispers die?
Or might they remain adrift- waiting?
Perhaps to return to origins of silence?
For me, our life is…a walk over thin ice
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Abstruse
Not a day passes that I don’t
Question, why didn’t I notice
What you weren’t saying to me
Have I grown just too obtuse
And comfortable in my solitude
That I was deaf to your needs?
I felt it was a mistake to leave
Did those miles in-between- us
Damage my fatherly instincts?
Oh, I feel I’ve failed the very one
That always attentively listened
And been there during my needs
Only you and God know it now
As I alone silently wrestle …without
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Detoured
I’m reminded of the times
You pulled me from darkness
Where life left me stranded
Steeped in unknown fringes
You reflected a strength
That I once herald myself
Before the scars I bare now
And long before your birth
I still recall our conversations
Where you inspired me onward
Hugged hope back into my heart
Wiped away my fallen tears
Modeling unconditional love
That separates us… for now
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Chain reactions
The breakage of morning
The lost half-thoughts
Intermediate raindrops
The broken text habit
The dampened whispers
Fractured flutters of my heart
And those avoided pictures
There are thousands of things
Secretly tucked away
Within the folds of our time
Most distinctly lead me back
To treasured conversations
And your absent colorful facets
That used to heighten…my life
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Wake of truth
2 am and I feel your memories
Pressing on my broken emotions
Tears roll down my weary face
I feel so out of place- anymore
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I thought I be better but I’m not
Three weeks later and here I sit
Realizing nothing has changed
I feel somehow that I’m to blame
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Encroaching light on the horizon
Always reminds me of your name
A double edge sword you’re present
But not like you always used to be
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Moring has finally broken through
Maybe now I’ll pretend… to sleep?
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Poet of the Light © 2021
Whispers of a poet's heart 