Bittersweet love

I thought of you today

With longing and sadness

Just following dawn

Standing underneath the blossoms

It was the open green fields of England

I wept for

And they way your soul is

So inextricably linked

To all of that

Thank you for taking me home

Before I even knew where it was I came from

The angels sensed it and maybe also Dad

Led me to you

On that cold June night

Whispering to my heart

On the day my great great grandmother was born

I will not remain forlorn

As I watch spring blossoms fall

But take all of this sadness into my heart

While finding a way to smile to it all

There was a loss I endured

When I lightly closed the door on us

But did not bolt it

And then you walked away

I went then it seems

Into the darkest place for years

But it was all part of an ancestral wave

Rising and falling

Bringing healing, pain and understanding

Taking me under

And tumbling all alone in that deep

My heart learned so many lessons

Of what this life of ours is all about

So when I think of you now

Cycling through those green fields

Photographing glimpses of light

It will always be with that profound and painful mix

Of bittersweet love

Tinged with gratitude

For the happy moments of freedom we shared

In that magical time

Before the grief of generations

Took me under