When We Were a Couple of Kids
This should be a blank page,
but it is not…
Because now we have little ones
massacred in playful steps
while celebrating their last
Days of school.
Receiving honors for hard work,
looking forward to hazy days
and ice cream reasons.
Instead it is replaced
with Gurneys carrying out limp
souls of young bodies
dangling from under discrete sheets.
Screams are heard in meeting
places as families receive the news.
Darkness takes place,
” when we were A couple of kids”
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Clouds
I remember I would lie
Looking into the sky
The aquamarine blue
Stretched way up high
Hung with invisible means
puffy white clouds
Would show up in streams
Of shapes like Animals
or people I have seen
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Angels Among My Garden
I look and then I stay,
The angels keep the garden
And with me we pray 🙏
Angels among my garden
A path I will keep for you
So when you come and visit
You will always get through .
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The Love of an Uncle
The love of an uncle
Just to be there
In the middle
Of confusion he listens
And cares .
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God’s Thumbnail
Right outside my window is a sliver of a moon .
There is no fanfare , just hangs in quiet.
Looking like God’s thumbnail ,
As an iridescent light.
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Mom’s Birthday
It is your birthday
We cut the cake
We shared a memory
For old time sake
I am not sure if cake is there
Or parties or birthdays
But today Steph and I share
A piece of cake on this day
Your birthday 🎂
There
I know you are there
There where there is no pain
There in a world of angels
There where we do not know
Where there is until
We get to know …
Take care dear brother in law.
Take care…
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