FROM HERE TILL ETERNITY-PART 2

I once again share the written form of my spoken word piece published few weeks ago. This is the second and concluding part of the poem that is a tribute to my deceased birds who I absolutely, thoroughly miss. May they rest in peace.

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Your memories are dredged up,

I put them by the shore of my grief.

I let them settle on a ship,

to long island

that perhaps will never come back,

with your last words.

I shore them by my mind’s eye,

I see them in these leaves,

right under where I buried you.

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I haven’t come to my favourite

garden,

my own Eden,

to not interfere with your soul’s

paradise

or with your soul’s passage.

But I know

that you see me,

right by the bark of this tree,

right where I never got the chance

to bring you,

to put you right in the bounty

of this nature.

All I have to say is,

You are beloved,

You are loved

You are my children,

residing right in the hole

of this heart

and the whole of this spirit,

from where your bodies have flown

away.

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There is a darkness

But there is also a winter light,

bright, shimmering

that has kept me alive.

So while I dredge up memories

of our joy,

I put them in my heart’s shelves,

opening them and keeping you alive

and awake,

forever and ever.

For after all,

we are all birds in paradise,

flying off to our very own

destinations.

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