Dad is on my mind tonight and I felt his spirit earlier on our afternoon walk as tears fell.. This is a poem from the time after losing Mum close to the anniversary of my father’s anniversary of dying too.
At home I draw comfort from an afternoon lengthening out with shadows falling from cloudy skies interspersed with blue
I am found again here In this place Freed from endless distractions outside Reminding me of how lost and untethered I was all those years ago
Death came so suddenly to us Within several weeks you were gone Dad
And just perhaps At this time of year Echoes of that time are around me
I think of the ghost of loss You left behind Dogging us all in different ways And why now Its so hard for some to fully participate In the wake of this fresh loss
I weep with the knowing of it And of how powerless I am To do anything
But feel it
Silently I gather these knowings around me here
As Jasper snores I feel the sense of worlds fracturing Realities we lived within dissolving And…
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