Welcoming Life Back

Can we ever rekindle loss of life
That enigmatic effervescent glow of matter
Housed in a sentient mass
Where hearts and minds
See
Hear
Feel
Vibrations lesser life knows not of

Oh how sweet the breath of life
The in and out of sensorial perceptions
Each with its own personal footprint
Its own personal destiny

To lose that life
To remove that vibration
Moving about to learn
Intuit
Aspire
Learning of love

One can only send caring oscillations
So many strangers
Yet one
So many parents
Yet community
So many brothers and sisters
Yet...
Yet...

Such bewilderment we face

Such heart crushing introspection needed

To heal
To globally become aware that
Hearts and minds often need help
Even as we often forget to...
Ask

Ukrainians Enduring Life

The body,

once lit like a lantern in fog, now dimmed,

its glow folded into memory.

We walk among silhouettes,

each pulse a whisper of what once shimmered in the marrow of knowing.

Breath is not just air,

it is the tide that carries thought to shore,

the hush between heartbeats where a child’s laughter

once nested like a bird in the ribs of time.

To sever that vibration,

to stifle the current that seeks love,

is to silence Life’s symphony mid-note,

leaving the violins suspended in a room that has forgotten living is music.

Peace of mind sends out waves,

not of sound,

but of presence,

hoping the consciousness reaches the aching minds

sitting quietly behind bright eyes,

waiting for something that will keep the lantern alight,

even as so many misguided efforts stagger the flame,

bending the light to a burial of loss

where death hastens mortality into an abyss of darkness.