Parallel Gardens

Echoing the heavy utterance
A never ending heartache
Temporal and fleeting joys
Overcome by the repetitions of sorrow

Yesterday is gone, the moment is an illusion
Lost on this side of eternity for the longing of tomorrow

Tomorrow never comes they say
Every second in the age of passing
Will love carry us through the veil of death
To the life found in the realms of something everlasting

Lost for all our hopes vested in the divine
Hanging by a thread of faith to write us past the ending
To a place outside of time
Letters in the form of prayers spoken in the silence transcending

Ebbing and flowing, walking across the depths
Sinking ever further when absence is the stench of death

This valley is but a shadow of what is yet to come
Holding on to better place condolences, yet here and now I am undone

When life is overcast of sadness
The night feels like forever
Every day is darkness when I cannot see the sun

Finding a way to breathe, suffocated by the madness
Another season of this stormy weather
Confined by a lifetime, there is nowhere to hide and nowhere to run

Safety in the mystery
For all the questions that I have
Some are better left unanswered by the reason of a man
Interrogating the Healer
Yearning to try and understand

In this present darkness every heart on trial
Eyes swollen with bitter tears sting as they trail down
When days like these prove the fraudulence of a smile
The precipitation of our clouded vision cascading to the ground

Inverted roses with roots made of daisies
Planting parallel gardens
Every grave the bedrock of rebirth
When every loved one that we bury finds us conflicted by brokenness and liberation from the earth

Blooming on opposite sides of what pails to be put into perspective
When all we feel is the weight of another loss
When mortality finds that death is freedom, survival is my cross

Waking up without you here finds a part of me has died too
Because I’ve never known a world until now that I’ve had to bear the loss of you…