Upward stare, dark sky,  I fade into the veil of night. Woven in dark heavy shrouds that blanket the earth and hold it tight.

My body rests on dew kissed grasses where the wildflowers grow..

My heart and thoughts with all I've loved and the life I came to know..

My essence now the starlit heavens, close and far away, and in the pink hued clouds of morning luminesce of  sun rays..  

In the rolling ocean blue my loved ones yearly see, when the cool breeze caresses their face you know that's where I'll be..

On my mothers garden bench she quietly rests upon, I'll be the sweet bird song that makes her smile even though I'm gone..

I just want to be an angel floating close by to wrap them in my love and hold them when they cry..

We are apart of everything always and forevermore, death isn't the end for us, it's just another door.

~

Sitting on this roof,
seeing the colored lights in neighboring windows
finding frosted panes in abstract happiness,
as winter’s wind howls about my face

Speakers blare in cramping holiday tones,
(What’s so wonderful about it ~ this time of year?)
Shingles damp and slippery,
still I hold on for dear life

Fingers numb but clinging,
for without my seated sadness
on this peak above chimney ash
watching streams finding the edge

how else would those muddied
tear drop icicles form?

~

Then I hear it on shivering vibrations
A voice from ~ out there ~ somewhere
A shadow beneath a flickering street light
Footprints in circles about the square

Moving in my direction
My silhouette on white clouds shimmies
A little to the side, for a better view
Wings ~ it has ~ she has wings

I blink a frozen eyelash ~ she is sitting next to me
A warm, feathery quilted wing about my shoulders
Chilled cheeks burn as I smile
and my heart melts as she whispers to me ~

*“No more icicles”

Kiss me once
upon the lips,
and speak to
me as if
my ears
are the most
important
you've ever
spoken to.
-JRM