Hughlings Himwich

Rest Area

 

                                                           Photograph by Ber Himwich

What Rest Area?

Planet Earth?

A City Park?

Backyard?

The Space Between Our Ears?

 

Hold True

"That's the face of a man who has seen it all."

 

                                                                                                                                           Photograph by Ber Himwich

“That’s the face of a man who has seen it all.”

Not so. There’s more to come
And it’s not all suffering loss
The mind shedding all

That is not nailed down
Eyes vacant still
Focused on what no one else can see
A sky so blue the light so full

That you can speak only
In single syllables silently
To the coming darkness
As though it were a friend

Passing onto another life
Where there is no sky
But the sky we have become
When at last we have seen it all.

 

Ber and Dad One

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