Overgrown willows

Crowding out the river banks

The work of my hands

Summer grass seed swells 

Awaiting autumn’s scatter

We stand together 

Distant jet planes roar

Dividing our lives in two

If I could just walk… 

Can I untangle 

A trillion synapses 

In separate boxes? 

This body will rot

All memories fade away

Will I die alone? 

Everything after

Coloured by these memories 

Now fading away

What is left behind? 

All your possessions are lost

Only memories

Deep inside your eyes

In the bottomless abyss

I left myself there

The fading sunset

White walls washed with golden light

What will we become? 

Torn into pieces

My fragile heart is shattered 

A broken mirror 

No matter how far

The other side of the world 

Can’t escape myself 

With my eyes still closed 

A mole blindly burrowing

Am I losing sight? 

 My feet are grounded 

Clip these failed Icarus wings

Keep this song bird caged 

A fallen apple

Decomposing where it lays

Am I stuck like this? 

So I endeavor 

To have less and to be more

Birds are migrating 

Goodbye says the sun

To the hazy blue mountains

Her rays create gold 

In another world

 Replaying fading memories 

Like videotape 

I hear meadow larks

And a thousand blades of grass

Summer softly sings 

Submerged and sluggish 

Stumbling through summer rain

Drowning sinking lost

This deep ocean rift

Standing firm between us all

Tearing us apart 

Mid summer rain falls

Skin drenched and eyelashes drip

Thunder breaks my heart 

I feel the blood rush

A light head and dizzy toes

I’ll never forget 

The cool evening breeze

Running fingers through my hair

A snatched memory

I have escaped from

This eternal November

Sunflower seeds sprout