Journey

...for mom and dad...

JOURNEY

 

 

The sky was puff cloud blue

as I looked out from the pier.

Gulf waves undulated sensually,

as Gulls hovered and dove

looking for their morning meal.

Terns, awking away,

walked the beach

squawking at human intrusion

on their sunlight.

It was a typical Florida morning,

filled with pastel displays.

 

I walked nature trails,

Looking back thousands of years;

tall Cypress, ferns, assorted birds,

as well as alligators greeted me.

I walked memories of delight,

the ones you took me on.

 

It amazes me still,

travelling a remembrance journey;

remembering your decline

and facing your passing,

I see life all around me.

I feel its struggle for survival,

taste its determined efforts

at wonderment.

Though my moccasins are well worn;

clothes wrinkled and dirty;

the air, water and earth polluted

by insatiable “free markets”,

I will carry on,

continue this journey

and leave tracks

worthy of a human being.

Exactly as you taught me.

 

Aztec Warrior/redzone  3.23.18 

Author's Note

… thanks for reading... in the last year and a half I lost both my parents.... they lived a long life and in remembrance I took a journey to Florida where they lived and visited many of the places they took me to when I visited them when alive... this is one of the poems I wrote about this 'remembrance journey'...