MARBLES

23 July 2015

Abide

Venus is brilliant in the evening sky

One, two, flying low to ground
June fireflies
Tomorrow will be very hot
The garden is mulched and watered
I have a garden
The rose bushes trimmed after their first flush
There was no mail I checked multiple times
I’ve been wearing my straw hat
It’s good protection from the sun
Sometimes I forget I have it on  
Wear it late into the night

Half-past midnight 
Going out to check on Venus 

The star is gone.
Where are you?

It hurts, it hurts beyond hurt
One pain with multiple names
Eventually I lost control
I drifted towards the shadows of life
You'll come back, they had warned
To further catalogue your arid days

Sometimes fog
Escapes from memory
To be distilled in dreams
     
     He is smiling — I am happy
     The earth is freshly tilled
     Upturned land fragrant
     A cypress overlooks

At daylight, the vivid colours bleach out
Now home is here
A hearth apart 
I exist
I abide