Linger
So cold, unable to move





























my own invisible chains.





























Until you came


































I was free, free to become me.



























The cold trembled away at your touch

























That inking shadow that my own mother, your daughter, grandma
























left hung and spread over me like a cloak of midnight
















Forever leading me in the black days.



























I know you saw it, knew it to your very essence of your core


















only because you had done it before

























You flawlessly took her place and took me in your


















outstretched arms. I will forever live with my























eyes a living waterfall of sorrow.




























To merely linger only a few seconds on the haunting




















face and voice of yours beats at my soul.























Please, I beg you; please please


























make this one exception for me, if only for me.























I wish for you to abandon your high grace
























and take pity on the one little soul you left.

























I will never forgive the way you passed.























My innocent eyes, they watch in agony
























they witnessed death sweep into your breast, gracefully, as though to conceal its wretchedness.





A cloud of black smoke.





























Death that had seeped into your bones so long ago






















the moment I was told it was far too late.
























I often wish you would shimmer into existence





















On Christmas eve, becoming my ghost of the past present and future, to tell me of my wrongs





How, may I ask, can a woman of your fire
























do such a thing as to vanish?




























How, do please, tell me.






























How can you allow me to watch





























as my world withered away as though


























It were only a child’s dream.





























Even now, as the millennium passes, my heart






















will sob and scream in torment




























My soul soon joins it






























Together a banshees’ wail



























inside me it is caged





So only hear



Only i feel