[Unsung]… In Memoriam… 1941-2011

I find myself pleading with the gods

Coercing them – Provoking them

I challenge their might

I defy their malign ways

They take from man – all his soft flesh

Then call themselves "The Creator"

They draw from us – our prescious blood

And remove from it, the bearings of our souls

Return it to our eyes from whence we cry to the skies

Anguished. Grief stricken. Awake and afraid

Like newborns pulled from the womb

Thrust into light – shown no mercy

A fearful emptiness left to be filled

With God’s great love of this world

This one fragmented foundation

To waver

To fight and survive

To live on – To love in

To lose it all in our final breaths

We bid adieu to this world and the next

Aware that we will never see light reflect off our own skin again

Not of this body and not of this flesh – she departs

And I am left standing alone – with just this face she gave me

Remembering the gods in men who came before me

Giving them no hope of return

We recollect until we can no longer remember our truths

We love until we can no longer feel the sting of living

And she dies to take away the growing yearning of health

We are alone – I have no love left to give

She took those final parts of me as I gifted them to her

A final goodbye – my declaration of love to thee.

DC12