Sleep is coming hard this evening..
--
After years of toil and defying nature
it's beauties and also it's travesties
sleep is coming hard this evening..
He said, and sitting from a thousand miles away
one felt at the tips of the finger and the ragged corners of the soul,
the excruciating sorrow and devastation of loitering in the ruins..
The battles won but overall lost,
the bottles emptied, the injections filled
and refilled over time, across pharmacies
and nights and many evenings of heart wrenching pain..
and still despite all the science..
beyond all the pain..
She smiled, flicking an eye lid
setting off, away from all humanly efforts
to tie her in life's ordeal
of pain, suffering, sorrow and chicanery ..
She was right,
we were wrong, in her journey,
she wants all of us to join soon..
with sleep,
that was hitting papa hard this evening
when she was gone.
--
In memory of Ains..
05/1/2012.