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
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