THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE
Once an eagle loved a dove
They flew together
The skies above.
The eagle and the dove,
she soft beneath his wing.
All they ever knew was love.
He would shriek his wildest cry.
She would sing her softest song.
The wind would carry the along.
“Together we have been.
Together we now are.
Together we will always be.”
One an eagle loved a dove,
Pledged to roam forever
The skies above.
But they knew not
how loveless
empty skies could be.
Until, with broken wings,
they plummeted down,
flailing and cawing through
The skies above.
Not shattered by the fall,
they picked themselves up,
learned to walk again.
Until they lifted off,
searching in different directions
The skies above.
THE EARTH BENEATH MY FEET
She transcends the moment and the feeling,
goes beyond what now is felt.
That’s why I write these words for her,
although the warmth has left.
She’s more than passing sunlight,
she’s the earth beneath my feet.
And even when I long to fly,
It’s still the earth that holds the sky.
PURPOSE
I am thankful
For the three already here
Whose need stretches out to me,
I die quietly.
That they might not be forsaken
Left alone to the wind and the wolves,
I die quietly.
I am thankful
For myself and God and all their happy smiles to come,
That no shadows linger on,
I live quietly.
I am thankful