In loving memory of my father,
John Graham (8/22/48-7/12/19)
midnight rains feed
waters of the underworld
that rage between us
diminishing your secret light
verity a river that
hemorrhages its banks
flood plain of pain
invisible in the lapis night
reed songs silenced
clay of creation formed
sediment of a transitory life
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Vows echo hollow in the night sky
my lyre cast into the heavens
paeon twisted lachrymose
music unraveled in star trail fragments
a leitmotif of grief
Was it the uplift of hope
or my fallen eagle of faith
that lost you, my beloved?
our reunion assured
until I could not look away
From my bright star,
my soul’s hearth
doomed to an eternity apart
colliding underworld horrors
in interstellar space
The ring upon your finger
now a beacon and an effigy
shattered nebula of my love’s promise
tainted by the poison of another
constellations of sorrow dismember me
Envelop my sight
cleave my joyous heart
rob my arms of succor
my feet of the path back to you
muses bury my bones
and silence our song
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I’m an Executive Director with a doctorate in education, a consultant, painter, photographer, composer, poet, and vocalist.
