Elegy for my Great Grandmother

All things die
In passage
Of much time

Bear no grief
Shed not tears
Raise your head

Open mind
Heart agape
Ears unshut

I begin
This, a sad
Elegy

Mourn not death
Praise only
Deathless deeds

Let these feats
Warm our souls
In ill times

Remember
Nostalgia
Thy passed kin

Julia

I

Under my nose
The fair maiden
Sat gleefully
In pious daze

Oh, Julia!
My heart lept out
Oh, Julia!
Venus did shout

I longed to see
What we could have
I ached to meet
My twin once halved

She says she fell
For me from high
I fell also
I went awry

In my crazy
Awkward ways to
Attract her, I
Succeeded not

It was not true
I was too rich
In a wealth- wealth
of emotion

Like an overcast
A shadow overwhelmed
Her still shown grace
Her friends think ill

Do no listen!
Their young mouths spurt
Words immature
Of him, the me!

She listened, sad
Really for me
I fell hard, yes
The fly hits rock

Ignore me, go!
We could have had
Our sadness shed
You as my light

Depression sets
Its fangs dig deep
Another bout
Sadness thy game

My pen sorrow
My paper soul
I begin it
Tragedy's name

To Julia
My almost, dear
Bonny and apt
Wicked and sly

Can you not see
It was meant to
Be? So I plead
Repent to thee

A wall of steel
Held up by tears
We hide ourselves
Out of these fears

In truth be told
We are players
On the sad stage
Called passing life

We act the part
Only to deceive
All who wish to
See behind mask

I fade out now
Go to my dark,
gloomy corner
Cosmos collapse

II

The sudden bang
My thoughts expand
Waves of reason
Wash away mourn

Realize I live
Sill on in life
Wounds heal and teach
Lessons through strife

Licked and splinted
Scars always fade
Just allow time
Good things are made

I served my time
In asylum
Of quick, just love
She slips my mind

I move on now
To a better,
Perhaps, chaff life
A road hard won

Sweet nothings

Just as day breaks
Unshut your bonny eyes
Lift up your heart
Inhale the morning light
And listen to me say

Smile you are beautiful
Madness is thy name
In you I confide
Trust and my amour
Here in a bonkers way

Back from the Brink

Can this be
Happiness I see
To Venus I plea
Please let it be she

She brings much glee
I feel on a spree
Running with thee
I am free