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