Let down your hair, together

Let down your hair

So it becomes the river

Along which you travel

Full of a thousand dreams

A vast midnight deep sky

Filled with stars of light

Night now has left this place

And there is no need for you to dwell now

In darkness

In loneliness

In sorrow

Can you hear

The calling beneath the words

All the things he could not say

Could you feel his burning

Your burning was the same

You both carried that similar pain

Of loss of leaving

It never fully leaves you

But that is the past

And now

Together you can travel

Along a river of light

Leaving behind night and the dark wood

Of ancestral sorrow

Driven deep

And find a new home

And family

Together

(for my beautiful nephew, G)