An invitation to grieve

There is that moment in grief

when it clutches your breath

and you wonder how you will ever snatch life back,

how you are certain your lungs have forgotten how to draw

 

 then it snaps back like a cruel rubber band

the air returns

and all you want to do with that one precious breath

is wail

so all the world can hear

so everyone stands still for just one moment

so the clouds stop their constant sweeping of the sky

and the magpies quit their ceaseless conversations

 

OUR WORLD HAS CHANGED

you want to yell at ever passerby

 

The seeds of my kin have spilt on the earth

Cry with me

please

let our collection tears fall on fertile soil

so that new life may grow