for rp
if you experience
not loving
your mother
even for an instant––
you know that heaven
shatters the day she
dies
death clarifies
who we are
& why we’re
here
we are the blood
of each other––
father mother
sister brother
husband wife &
child
body love
birth love
& the loving
nipples of our deepest
faith
we are blessed
by the affirming nods
& the unconcealable
glowing pride
of our ancestors
who welcome us
home
the shadow of
death brings warm
hearts close
like worship
& the dying takes
we living to our
knees to cry out
in fierce sounds
we never
knew
we knew
in the end––
now or hereafter––
all is
forgiven
anger is
past & impossible––
with closed or
open eyes
we grasp each
other & sob
as love transforms
all into
itself
the way
forever is
always
was