You struggled beneath the surface of unquiet moments
and I strove too,
shared your gasping breaths
of impossible release,
flowed with time
and tide
till saved,
at last,
in the drowning.
Tag: faces
Elysian Fields
I’m rising and falling
and floating thru’ time
like a leaf on a breeze
in the mist
to Elysian Fields,
lush pastures to seize
while a song plays and
drifts from my lips.
I open my eyes
to view what’s in store and
gasp with delight
at the scene;
my Mother and Father,
all those long gone,
dancing
as if in a dream.
Their laughter like lilacs,
their faces in bloom,
roses red
on each cheek,
my face shines with joy
at each girl and boy
suspended in time
that we seek.
Air rushes by,
my heart gives a cry
as I’m torn from this world
full of wonder
clouds scud the night,
spirit in flight, in a whirlpool
I’m dragged
back down under
to life on the earth
where worries await
and trials are the test
of my soul.
But eyes closed, cast within
I see fields again
and the faces of my
Elysian goal.
Mistaken
I saw you today.
We passed on our ways.
Face and figure so familiar.
Eyes held
above steering
through glass.
I looked away,
ashamed
to have revealed
my heart to a stranger.
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