perspective

Today marks the one year anniversary of my father's death. I wrote this in June, but saved it for today.

perspective

Jennifer Pickup, 16.06.2023

at the time

quicksilver emotion

and shattered rainbow light

fires lit in winds of change

phuttering and fluttering

heart high like helium kite

impossible to pin down

amidst crushing darkness

hiding tears underneath

velvet night

later on

all things solidify

liquid thoughts to dust dry

feelings less mercurial

now warm flesh turned to cold ash

scattered under greying sky

calm but inconsolable

a lost soul searching for

peace in pieces of my

shattered life