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From My Father's Fingers
(An Excerpt)
A Poem titled:  To My Mother's Heart (in honor of Felix)
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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.

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