Tag: transition

• Reciprocity

  I’ll Believe In Yours, If You Believe In Mine First If I lie in the Desert Without closing my eyes For one whole night Would I be wise? If I followed each star-trail From its home to my door Would I discover The way out, for sure? But I know me better And I know […]

  cborsello

  August 16, 2017

  Poems

  growing up, transition, who am i? why me? earthly education

• When A Mother Dies

  We Strip the Careworn Dead Their Mortal Coil We lave their toiled hands, Their knobby feet, Their centers and extremes. We lay them flat In underground and secret passageways to Heaven’s scroll-worked gates. We bless and praise them in our tears. We brush the wood encasement with Messages posting to God above Even as We […]

  cborsello

  May 7, 2017

  Poems

  Death, Dying Parent, Loss, transition