a broken arrow

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

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