Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Meditation on Mother Death

The morning after the day
my mother died
I awoke in the dark
and stood outside our bedroom
at three o’clock sobbing,
‘She’s not on earth
anymore!’.

No spiritual kool-aid,
no shrunken paradigms
of pie-in-sky
could quench that lostness then,
that squelched thirst deep
in the throat’s torn cave.

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