Isolation

Silently
Eyes grieve
The coming morning
Pooling thoughts
Down weathered causeways
Silently
Her children weep
Whittled to bones
Spooling thread
To stitch away tears

And cold granite
Stares unblinking
Shares a eulogy
Of solitude
And heavy steps
Crunch blades of grass
Past orchids and organs

Silently
I grieve
Crumpled notes
Share wisdom
We shake the devil's hand
Silently
We leave
Father, son, daughter
Cooling
Fresh-kilned hearts

And old passages
Remembered
Spare us nothing
But love's tomb
And dreaded steps
Draw the day to a close
Beneath bravest stars
To come at dusk
And stay through morning

Cold Luna waits out the night
As a wife
And mother
Mimics her, hiding when
We could see her most
Now her eternal sleep
Robs us of beauty
Even as we beg
A glance.