Syntax falls away
Like fluttering leaves
Drop from a tree
After an October frost.
Words and phrases.
Once so quick to mind
Must be laboriously dredged up
Or a reasonable facsimile found,
But it’s still not the same
As what I wanted to say or write.
I guess the simile is apt,
I am in the October of my life,
So it seems fitting
That mental foliage drop away.
Soon my tree will be bare,
And it will be the middle of winter.
Perhaps I shall die down here
Only to sprout new foliage
Come spring
Somewhere else.
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Sherlyn Powell opens up about her love and devotion to her family and the overwhelming repercussion when communication breaks down. Heartbroken and distraught she learns to release her prayer and realize with faith God would reunite her family.
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