It's Earth Day Dear Brendan--A Poem/Prose

It’s Earth Day Dear Brendan
April 22, 2018

It’s Earth Day 2018

& I’m thinking of the earth &

All it’s Beauty & Mysteries.

I don’t feel like focusing

On the evils of mankind Today.

What I do know:

Mother Earth has taken you back

Without asking our permission.

We humans think we can overtake her,

Dominate Her.

Yet she will take our bodies back;

In the form of dust,

In the form of ash,

In the form of anything she can get.

And I suppose we must be grateful

For that fact that she gave us life;

Our Earth Bodies,

In the first place.  

On Earth Day 2018

My Memory is on You.

By YOU, I mean the

Physical YOU.

The last memory of seeing you:

When I had to say Goodbye to you,

In physical form.

Lying there so Perfect,

So Alive,

So Beautiful,

So Magical,

You Looked like a Sleeping Prince

Lying There.

I am again Remembering My Last Goodbye;

Touching your hair,

You face,

You lips.

One last glimpse and touch of your hand in mine.

Seeking out all of your tattoos

Your forever wounded knee

With the Exotic, Elaborate Elephant tattoo.

I’m remembering your feet:

Their shape,

Their color.

I’m fully aware that I knew

All the correct, achy spots

That I lovingly massaged.

Your Earth Body

Was so Special to Me.

Special to Your Family,

Special to Your Friends.

An extension,

An expression

Of Your Soul.

Your Unique Soul.

And when I last

kissed You

And told You,

“I Will Love & Miss You For the Rest of My Life.”

I meant it.

All I know:

Today, Earth Day 2018

at 11:40 in the morning

Is;

I Miss You Dear Brendan, I MIss You.