You became dust
at the falling of another
biodegradable relationship
I'm kicking up ashes
from a paper urn
decaying beneath
where feet now tread

The Centre of my Universe
in just the palm of one hand
a completed process
no bone fragments
of shards, just ashes

b
   l
     o
   w
n
a
   w
a
y

Our whole world in mere
grains, each part of us
ground into ounce weighing
particles; each a tale of
experiences shared

It was a mourning
a funeral service
without a death, only
grief racing through
my every vein

I'm dressed in black;
veiled
my skirt dragging along
gravel below, I know
as the crow manifests
it's time to let go

cah
cah
cah

Times are to change
a passing of the old
rebirth of
my beloved

Candle light forms
shadows, as night draws
closing in, &
I understand

Life is ephemeral
my appreciation grows
&, as I lift myself to
the temple
I scatter what remains of

us
     us
          us

&, as darkness falls
carried by the crow -
our communicator,
he crosses us from
this world
to the next.

© Sia Jane