
From My Father's Fingers
(An Excerpt)
A Poem titled: To My Mother's Heart (in honor of Felix)
From my father's fingers,
To my mother's heart,
Raged the golden river
That crashed upon the rock .
Torn the stream would wander
Winding and forlorn
Living in the shadows
Of what had been before
Through a barren desert
the Stream became a line
Then disappeared,
without a trace
forgotten for a time.
Though you go or I go,
No matter which be first.
At the beginning and the end,
Both be quenched and rent with thirst.
On my hands and knees,
I looked for you,
Crawling to my final spot.
Truth be told I sucked the petal through
To savor every drop.
I woke the morning covered,
In what i thought was my own blood.
Never realizing every touch of you
Was a gift of God above.
So I reach and reach
My Arms outstretched,
Just Longing to feel whole.
But the breeze of you forever,
Leaves nothing in my grasp to hold.
Yet time it seems can never stop,
never render two from one.
Mother Earth will cry her whole again
With a mighty flood.
Golden tears they fall
Giving life to golden dust.
Never was a force so strong,
Not even at its first.
I know this journey is not done,
For i've met you here before.
No one can ever separate
Two hearts that came from one.