My mouth is closed. My tongue is arrested. I muted my throat, I’m trying to speak with my eyes. When I’m tired of words

Come, sit with me In the quiet of our greeting. Unburden your shoulders, Rest those weary feet. Ignore blinking lights,

Branches Bare, black branches And forlorn grey sky For my burial blanket. You, vultures,

I’m listening to snowflakes dying, As they melt upon the tips of my e… I’m watching silence slipping thro… This tentative and reticent sign-l… Of my attempt to grasp for heavens…

Insistent, yet gentle and knowing, Fingers of Spring Break open the stale shell, Long overdue to blossom. Insistent,

On a kind of morning When nothing feels quite right, Heart whimpers, For what?, It knows not

There is a ghost in the house, A persistent memory Of gold and orange, Of heavy paws and breathing And the intent 'good morning’ star…

A star that fell (A speck of light that heavens didn’t care to hold on to any long… Rejected fury, Unnoticed in her flight

The eyes of an elder, They may be blind with age, Not able to see all the beautiful Details, colors and shapes That surround him.

The thinnest of threads, made of s… Runs from my heart to yours. Frail and delicate, as it’s nature It’s beauty unparalleled. For it is connecting your soul to…

I have devised a thousand smiles To speak in place of words, But there is a special smile of qu… I have, that’s only meant for you.… I’ll save it for the day of our me…

How tender my gaze upon you As we lie in eternity like glacier… Our bodies melting into each other… In half-sleep, half-dream. I study the landscape afore me.

Her life was not a poem But the nails that hold a house to… Her young years are shrouded in my… There are no old faded photographs Of a young beautiful face,

Softly, as a petal from a dogwood… Alights upon calm pond waters, My fingers land upon your skin And set alight your soul. Gently, as a midday cooling breeze

Monotonous thunder Of metal on metal At the speed of Great Transsiberi… Reverberates in my eardrums. Thousands upon thousands