Brown chrysanthemums -
I hold a vital portion
of eternity.
A butterfly sucks
the secrets of two flowers
then flits off to die.
A grain of sand, I
roam the ocean floor in search
of my beginning.
A bird sings in flight
above where she had hidden
yesterday from rain.
I am the sand once
guided by the sea, uncertain
now within the wind.
A falling drop of
water breaks a petal from
a fading flower.
Beyond bare trees a
mottled moon descends behind
gray fields of dry grass.
Once a lowly worm,
the lonely moth before she
dies has no concern.
A swirling wind blows
the ancient dust across a
road where children play.
Faded flowers bow,
for however grand, the end
always is too soon.
Broken egg shells, brown
in foam, ride a stream that is
no longer sacred.
An insect walks a
puddle, shatters earth and time
in concentric rings.
As gentle morning
dew, you realize I'm there.
Sunrese finds me gone.
The day the world stops
will be just another day
I've been loving you.
Christmas is the gift
wrap on the Son on Easter
morning's empty tomb.
Christmas promises
what Easter fulfills when the
stone is rolled away.
A lamb, I dream I'm
a lion with a lamb and
do not will to wake.
Home page