Please keep talking. Bring me home. Each brush stroke inflection Stokes fires of resurrection Bringing back memories of Baseball diamonds, Karate lessons, One-room school houses and Overlooked blessings, Of hills so high that we Named ourselves kings And of our fathers' shadows That reminded us We were yet princes. The sound of your voice Is unearthing ruins of me, Of blueberry fields Where we stained our clothes, Of the sulfur we often Held in our noses. In your ebb, In your flow, It echoes more clearly Than my heartbeat: Will a tree forget its roots?