it is a ferocious story
one that I can’t even begin
to offer the scale of empathy
it warrants
the acute contraction
of life and lives
as the story surfaces
and all the fears that ties
themselves to a mother
to a son, to a sister
to a daughter (sweet child)
and expresses again
in fierce mother-love fears
in such a natural response
and yet, in a small way,
I see the grace
the unbundling of pain
and the pain unbundling
that son brings mother
(daughter and sister)
God! What a purpose
What a divine love to go through
this together
How my heart peals to the core
of nothing left
when I think of your
karmic play
the karmic run-off
and the karmic love
holding you all together
beyond this life’s imagination
I am touched
