Clarity

To bless you

Would be to honor the good in you

To see your pain and understand

Its root

To offer a helping hand

Even when it becomes so challenging

To stand the helpless feeling of seeing you

Lost

There are things I feel for you deep inside my heart

You may never know

And lately it seems

That the tragedy in our family

Will never be

Entirely gone

There were the dark years

That even though they are passed

Linger on in memory

As ghosts hover on the edges

Of my consciousness

Who knows what is to become of us

Tomorrow

There are roads still to walk down

There are doors still to open

And there are these roots that bind us

And that we try break

With enormous difficulty

There is the clarity we seek

Also

On the outer edges

Of our pain

That arises when we least expect it

After night and nights and nights

Of what sometimes seems to be

Endless grief and suffering