THROUGH THE CHANGING MISTS OF GRIEF

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JOURNAL #28

with the stampede of time

eight years today

even still

rippling chills appear

a sonnet of hushed wisdom

upon the viewer's skin

muffled distractions stare

silently away

floating along in the simultaneous

vacuum of vagueness

distant music plays their empty

meaningless words

filtered out

emotions far too raw

bleed easily

such strain far too personal

to be much longer endured

such aural reminder of a once life

has no claim to calming these nerves

as the family would like

a gripping of welcome

hands amid a valley of pruned sentiment

sends tears to the bottom of a sorrow

yet fully met

the weight of closure

so necessary and painfully felt

pushes until before

so very tired

becomes

more tired than Brutus himself

must have felt

seconds after he snatched from Caesar

all his tomorrows of politics and peace

in just those shattered moments

the realization gains its legs

man will always be man

numb to his own fragile mortality

until he sees his own end in the corpse of

another

funerals

such hard devastating work up on the heart

but a real important fact for the living

its doubtlessly undoubtable to me now

God knows his stuff

death

a meeting oh so necessary

most especially

when its not your own.............

(written Jan 8, 2003 9pm)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

anniversary of my sister Wendy's death.

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