No Longer Here

"No!" watercolor j.m.frase-white 1973

No Longer Here

Grief festers

Bites at moments unexpected

Aches on the breeze

on a day without wind

Befuddles, rides

on the back

a rodeo of pain,

 longing

                                            Lost

Memory dances

on a day with a gentle airs

Kissing of their presence

their aura fills the room

music of the mind

of the heart

inside closed eyes

Grief is the dream of

mortal wishes for eternity

loss, with hope on the edge

waves rippling on the shore

of consciousness

(With thoughts of John Robert Peters, Jr.

And so many more, this hot stilted July Sunday, the 21^st  in 2019 )

 "Farewell"  watercolor, j.m. frase-white 1973