Pearls Separate and Fall from the Sky
Creaking wooden floors
Support my feet
Doorknobs hanging on
Loose screws want attention
Cobweb corners
Happy all alone
In dreams awake
Awake in dreams
Grief does not speak with me
Or sparingly take a ride
On a winter’s carriage
Horses in front
Galloping alive
Happy baby eyes pass my seat
As I patiently fly
In a dark plane
Brightness glows at the barely open window
Hours from home
A month frozen
Unthawed alone
Grief sits behind me
Pecking at my seat
Turbulence shakes me
My stomach pains me
Pearls separate and fall from the sky
Land on the land
Couldn’t grasp on
Why and how and who
Can I be after all this
Is a goodbye able to say hello to an afternoon
Is a hello able to say goodbye to anyone like her
The trees are more colorful than the year before
Why rake the ground
When we can listen to the sound
Of crunching leaves
I want to walk on the path in the woods
Again
Again
And again
With my mother
I will walk tonight in the city
Warped sidewalks
Energetic streets
And with every beat of my heart
I’ll bring her along
As this journey continues
The show must go on
