You Did Not Come

You did not come

Came the call

that he had passed 

You did not come

His life he gave to you

chose you to love

made you his

nurtured you

Trusted you

taught you

You were his muse 

his pride 

His joyful thoughts

his daughter

You did not come

While he reached for

you

while he struggled to remember 

You

he lay waiting for your face to shine above his 

In his final hours

You did not come 

Through the gathering fullness

people who loved him 

spoke prayed sang and cried 

you did not come

three days people 

Payed homage to him

to a life lived in service of healing

and you did not come

from my womb 

I gifted you to him

and he loved you

He raised you up

And you did not come

Your absence blinding

Your silence deafening

Your cruelty aberrant

You left him broken 

He never recovered

Your memory lingers with his

We were three

you did not  come

     By MarciaMarcia