Rhythmic Lamentations In A Minor Key

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome" -Jimi Hendrix

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Little Girl Lost


These walls
White
When I first saw them

Thinking
How nice, pristine
Clean

A place to make you safe again

Now you
Dead and blue

This was not supposed to be your tomb
No

This is not where your life was to be stored
Drawered
Labeled
Tabled
Stitched and Defined

There are no records here
Of smiles
Laughter
Hand to hold when the world seemed amiss

And I can do nothing – nothing
But stand there
Slack-jawed

Mountains of oceans pouring from my eyes
Screaming no, in my mind
Out of my mouth

Over and over

Do-over

Bring you back
To

Mommy’s womb