Diamond cinder

  

Got a little breathing relief 

Catch my breath can't hardly speak 

Ma's ashes still warm on the altar 

Stop to smell the roses don't falter

Got a few days together before she died 

two months later put life aside 

There's no easement how we go on 

Uncharted realms gotta go full swan 

Still smarts but don't feel too wise 

Tween a rock and a grown place vice 

Brush off the sad she's part my galaxy

Always was and will be mom to me  

We have a little breathing space 

Keep lungs tidy earth's business pace 

Planting trees gotta vote out the saw 

Seed health, water well, keep well ready to draw 

Sketch the planet a charcoal filter 

Before it reduces to one, a diamond cinder 

You'll never see another paradise   

Parent earth takes two clean dice

 

Her father away she smoked as a child

Back when vending machine handed out tar mild 

Mid life clouds stimulant, weight loss 

Never tallied the big picture cost 

 

Gave it her all, tossed in the towel 

A month after brother preceded her vowel 

O you and I we iou the future 

Few'n far between last breaths gathered 

short of breath,  too winded to walk 

Give us a stump speech talk 

She gave her shade, we swung from limbs, 

Made a canoe, rings full to their brim

 

There's no walls in this breathing expanse 

Just horizon and a crease in plans 

We're done on books, finito caput ideas 

Rest all you can can you  please find peace