Remember me…
Singing through labors
Chores of tedium
Enlivening experience
Lightening burdens
Exalting song
With music – so many different sounds
As a child, where I escaped
To mute
Dissonance of my home
My voice wavered
My notes fell flat
Struggled to make high notes
Maintaining the pitch
Remember me…
With a poet’s heart
Seeking beauty
In the natural world
Lover of Language
The syntax of sentences
Unfolding on a page
The symmetry of ideas
Prefix and suffix
The forming of words
Creating new meanings
Expressing new forms
Saying what I meant
A conduit of my soul
Remember me…
The rescuer of strays
Cats lost in the woodlands
Saved from precarious fate
Affection and comfort my rewards
To pet my cats, to be soothed
That altered state akin to trance
Who made me feel as if I made
A difference
A vulnerable creature
Dependent on my love and care