Death is Life

We live in spaces

We leave one space into another

When it ends in one space

It begins in another space

Life never ends, always in motion

And there is no death, but life

Life in another form, in another space

Life is coming

Life is going

Life is meeting

Just as we met them when we came

Others will meet us when they come

And so shall it be when we go

 

Smile Of Hope

Smiles like whispers thin

beam on a radiant face

Clouds like mountains 

slowly they penetrate

Words like fertile tiny seeds 

sprout out great oaks of hope

Assurance like indelible signs

the dark clouds soon to roll 

kokrokoo kokrokoo

Kokrokoo Kokrokoo

Waring men in a chase fright 

Poor cockrel in a hasty flight

Sacred abode of the visible noon 

Desecrated below the unseen moon 

Short the sleep of the elders lived

Gone the peace of the green land out

The feathery throat when slashed cried out loud 

A wholesome meal prepared to appease

The raging elders provoked to awake

A restoration of exceeding peace

Kokrokoo Kokrokoo

Three parts the virgin night is divided

The fragile silence soon to be broken

The tired ancient ones to begin

The steps towards their home way

The strong bones of the happy tribe arrayed

Their huts and shelters awake

Three times their unblemished praise

Three times ascend to their mighty maker

Giving way for his sun's rays

Driving away the feared dark

Home is where Mama lives!

 
Away from home
With thoughts at home

Away from home
With this yearn for home
Come home she said, come home!
Home is where mama lives
 
She lives there who greets with a smile
Old she is who needs my stronger hold
Gave for nothing in return
Her need for your want
There she looked at you 

Like one from a faraway journey
And lips blessed deeds
Come home she said, Come home!
 
It was heard through the window 

Her voice from another continent
In winter night an angry wind 

Pierces through an icy hand
Unheard cries, borrowed friends, 

On your own and far away from home.
Come home she said, come home!
She never knew he came 

The moment she bid him come
 
Yesterday he was at home
Because he met her first hug
She is calling him home, calling him
But she doesn’t know he is not home
She is calling me home, calling me
Louder than before the cry that was heard 

In the mind in an enclosed door  
Where letters and calls him carried 

But not to lie at her side
 
Yesterday he was at home
You treated him like one of your own
He longed for home away from home
Come home she said, come home
Home is where mama lives…

She is at home: you are home.

Sunshine lips

He gave her a jealous caring treat

and all of earth's footsteps stood still

Yet I see her smiling at the honey sunshine lips

before the dawn 
while my heart quakes 

she will drown
drown to be taken away by the waves
to be for their meat, these swimming strings

Dreaming you away

Though i wished my tongue and hands all
could have done what they were made for

rather than in their holes and by the side

Though lay we not on the same bed

and yet felt I your pulse and heard your breath

Though i will soon leave your sight

will I still dream you away

long when I awake

from his deep dream of peaceful love

within the deep depths of waters' noise

The Ground Will Rejoice In Our Sorrow

 

So feared, awesome and mighty

You keep coming and coming

And never tired

Never to spare any for a penny

 

Death, yes it was you

You took away the dear loss

Not that accident or that illness

 

You come to take that tired part of us

From where it was placed

Because earth, its owner still cried for it

Earth will rejoice in our sorrow

When eyes wet with cries

 

The smell of flesh

Fresh

Covered in casket

In suit

I know not if I will carry

Or once more let it tarry

 

I will never say good bye

Because you still live

Even in my dreams

Where I always pass you by

 

© Leander David (5/2/2022)

Pending funeral of my Dad