Lamentations

On Betrayal: Lifegiving Friendship Destroyed

Shadows cast across verdant moss

While fronded ferns reach with unfurling arms

To welcome heaven’s blessing

From winter dross

Lavender skies meet blushing mounts

And cedar soldiers stand against hurried winds

Aimed at rousing the beast

To taunted pounce

Did we not walk together

Through life’s fair woodland forest delight?

Now hear my scattered heart’s unanswered cry

after love is torn asunder.

On Necessary Loss: Painful Endings of Beautiful Chapters

How great and mighty you stand, O mountain

Bearing up the weary climber

To such joyous heights!

How firm your foundations

Holding peaks to heaven!

O Thou Mountain, Be cast into the sea!

Now in the depths

Your exhilarating peaks lay undisclosed

From this learn’ed traveler.

On Loss of Health: Unanswered Prayers

Carousel spinning

Horses dancing, ponies prancing

Children laughing, parents delighting

Round and round it goes

Watching life as a passerby

Or is it I

who spins

Not going anywhere?

On Loss of Innocence: Generational Sins

Can the flower refurl?

Can the bud close?

Can the stalk retract the stem?

Can the seed leaves regain their vigor?

Can the germination dry up?

Can the seed be unburied?

Can the unfurled flower restrain? Not wither and die?

Laying bear to the earth and sky

The seeds of tomorrow’s loss?