PLATE TECTONICS

The plates are touching tonight
The house is shaking
The earth is quaking
His grave is turning,for sure

The plates are knocking tonight
No food to fill them
Just spoons and rhythm
For these our children
My mind is raking,just for

Some solution
Some support
dasheen and dasheen bush
or some fish broth

The plates are biting tonight
Windpie and nothingchops
Not lashing right

My husband's journey
Was a short ride
But I won't go begging
To hurt my pride

copyright(c)2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick
#life through a widow's eyes

A NOTE TO LOVE

Can love revisit this lonely heart
Bearing a diamond ring?
Can love embrace these tired eyes
And soothe this wrinkled skin?
Can love warm away this arthritis
 and bring joy to my soul?
Can love resurrect my husband
For me to have and hold?
Can love pitch those high notes
That he once sang for me?
Can love replay those moans
and groans of bedroom symphony?
Can love demand my cooking
Or accompany me everywhere I go?
Can love,love me just one more time
With this type of love I know?

Copyright(c)2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick
#life through a widow's eyes

AHEAD OF ME

I'm going to meet that man
The one I gave my life to
I'm going to meet my lover
Who from youth to old age
Stayed true
You think God could take my honey
And keep him in His arms?
My husband is mine forever
He's dead and I'm still charmed!
Now he's gone ahead of me
Like any good gentleman would do
So I am not staying here for sure
I'm going to meet him too!

Copyright(c)2018by Camille Caliscia Patrick
#life through a widow's eyes

QUESTIONS OF GRIEF

How,is the one word which races across my eyeballs
How, do I make ends meet?
How, do I feed these hungry mouths?
How, do I pay these debts?

Why,like an echo surrounds me
Strumming my eardrums
into a frenzy
Why, is this happening to me?
Why, couldn't life just let him be?

I am losing equilibrium again
So in tears I ask, when?
When, will it get better?
Today,tomorrow,
now, or is it
Never?

Copyright(c)2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick
#life through a widow's eyes