Ancestral ache

Ache drips from inside these words

As healing dew drops fall

Upon the soul

These tears softer than rainfall

Tell the truth of things

Long hidden in those furthermost caverns

Of my heart

There are memories filled with such longing

Words describing them

Are impossible to speak

Can only be painted like fragile water colors

Over a ever receding horizon

Seeping slowly through

The deepest fissures of my soul

Tonight as I watched those wild Cornwall seas

Heave so restlessly

Distant ancestral memories called to me

As I felt the ache and longing

You knew

Please remember how deeply I love you

And how like scalding honey

Your pain drops

Increment by increment

Upon my ever fathoming mind

For I can never leave you

Permanently behind

You are still living here

Folded up inside

The deepest truest part of me