A Graceful Letting Go

Amidst the marigolds
She wept
Her gaze directed inwards
To the backs of her lids
No room for the light
To come shining on in

What was this place
She has once called home,
Where the squirrels went on scurrying
To find last year's fallen plunder
And the bluebirds stop to flirt
And make love with the passing breeze

A home she had left
To make room for a house
Where eyes sought the truth
Between meals from the breast
And ears knew no peace
Save the fall before sleep

For sleep she knew well
An escape from dampened walls
That never stopped wailing
Asking between breaths
To find life's real colors
When all the world seems just grey

For in life there is death
And in death there is life
With space inbetween
To sing the word cherish
And listen for the echo
Of the house that comes crashing down