An innocent glance at photo’s still waters feeling a revenant song heard calling in the wind as the tears come streaming with the loving and the hurting
The heaviness … Oh the sweet heaviness a fading heartbeat settles in palm of hand with the accepting tears of merciful surrender
The weight of a fallen mountain upon the footprints that held up an unseen world Helpless to stand back up tall as a sky so far away
The substance of the unshouldered weight to bear; evermore gazing unto the sunset to understand the beauty of the light,.. and a hopeful sweetness at the dimming of a longest day
An unknowable ache and suffering of the leaving ― an orphaned love with a faith in contrary hopefulness; a joy at the dawning, going home toward the guiding light
harlon rivers ... June 2018
written after finding some pictures in an old suitcase stored up in the rafters ― musing a moment out of the blue, i was not prepared for