i shall gather my tears of yesterday
and marry them with my smile today
thus my sorrows will be erased so
that tomorrow will be born of joy
will breathe in the air of today
so that if tomorrow never comes
my soul shall remember the wonder
of life and sense the love in my heart
darkness for almost a half a decade
now a glimmer of light has pierced through
we must walk into the light and gather its
rays so when and if the darkness arrives again
we will not succumb nor let it take hold
tell our children the truth both orally and in writ
of how we turned our heads, closed our eyes
and we let the darkness take hold while many
of us sat in silence while some closed the blinds
to let the darkness in
once the darkness took hold our eyes closed
and we could not see the steps of the path
before us, we could not see our hands or the
faces let alone their souls of those who
closed the blinds
we must pass on this message to our children
so they can pass it on to theirs and they will
be the forbearers, the carriers of lighted torches
where darkness shall not again prevail
today i am sensing the feelings of the sunflower
who in the morning awaits the sun to rise above
the horizon and hover o’er, be touched by the
warmth of its sunray fingers
feel a sense of relief like a balloon whose air has
been released and a big sigh of pleasure follows
while it flails about in the azure sky until slowly
and gently it is welcomed back to earth
like an eagle soaring o’er the valley, river and tree
and with a tilted crown and nurturing eye set upon
the nest it has lovingly perched on a sturdy limb
below where wide-open beaks await mother’s feed
a bittersweet of subtle joy comes o’er me today, for
i feel a relief from a portentous ill that has enveloped
my being in the last four years and has put a strain
on my spirit, my emotions and heart
i have shed more than four hundred thousand tears,
have lamented with many ‘Mamasitas’/Mothers,
wherefore, their children have been ripped from their
arms and whose hearts were and are torn apart
we’ll now share in our tears and little by little, relieve
our fears, say good riddance to the bastion of pain and
evil, embrace each other at a distance, rid us of two
evils; an insidious pandemic
and one personified
i sit at the rooted feet of my favorite tree overlooking
the pasture where wildflowers surround us like subjugates,
harkening for us to take pleasure in the dance they perform
with the breeze for me and my favorite tree
we sit here still in calming peace to embrace, to welcome
the day so serene and give of ourselves, becoming selfless
with all of this
we cherish this moment for no other will be the same and soon
the leaves shall fall from its limbs to sleep onto its nocturnal
wintry rest and i will shed my incarnate being to rest upon
my eternal sleep
both shall awaken again, my tree with its buds blooming in
the same
realm in Spring, me in a different place but for sure
embraced in love
that i take with me to my resting space of Spring
