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Goodbye
A word is remembered
A feeling is felt that lingers within the emptiness inside
Thoughts become visions that dance for your memory
They take a bow; then they step aside
Deep forest darkness where shadows are heavy
You wander, it's easy to get lost
Recklessly stepping without caution
You're learning confusion has its cost
Lost and abandoned alone in the darkness
Goodbye echoes in your head
Helplessly searching for answers to questions
And reasons for words never said
Pain is swelling from a place in the unknown
There's hurt there; there can be no doubt
Sleeplessly aching, you sit in the nothing
And wonder will you always live without
Peering through diamonds on frost-covered windows
You wish yourself on the other side
Trying to connect to that feeling once held
You take chase, hoping to collide
Only to fall at the sound of goodbye
Generations
Fathers build, and mothers smile
Bear their fruit to drop their seeds
Within us all lives, a child
In soil rich beneath the weeds
Years of changing faces
Given eyes tell the truth
Aged lines leave subtle traces
Still, born from just one root
The torch we pass is everlasting
Red embers of bloodline names
Many molds from just one casting
Each one different but yet the same
Still, the foe of time fights against us
Always the victor in the field
Though we struggle with a mighty vengeance
We suffer a wound that never heals
Faces change to granite markers
Fleeting memories of what we were
Photographs in old footlockers
Become unfocused, faded, and blurred
Like the horizon steals the sunset
The ages rob our life of time
Yet like the sunrise in the morning
Another life is born from mine
Immortality does exist
Survived with each new fertile womb
Nature’s own enduring seed
Again will flower, again will bloom
Night Has Fallen
Night has fallen
Risen over dusk
Cooling with comfort
It blankets all of us
Melodies sung from feathers
Fade to silence in the night
Wing covered beaks
Reposed in shadows far from sight
Moonlit rays, filtered light
Seeping cracks, beams of white
Velvet breeze, smooth-n-plush
Softly rustles through the brush
Images of willing spirits
Donned by Luna’s grace
Pass the moon to say goodbye
Then drift to another place
Blazing trails across the sky
Witnessing final flight
A shooting star burns then dies
Freeing wishes to the night
Dreams fill the slowing pace of
Cascading light at day’s end
The sun fades til morrow
Night has fallen again
Copyright © 2023 Thomas K. Hunt
A word is remembered
A feeling is felt that lingers within the emptiness inside
Thoughts become visions that dance for your memory
They take a bow; then they step aside
Deep forest darkness where shadows are heavy
You wander, it's easy to get lost
Recklessly stepping without caution
You're learning confusion has its cost
Lost and abandoned alone in the darkness
Goodbye echoes in your head
Helplessly searching for answers to questions
And reasons for words never said
Pain is swelling from a place in the unknown
There's hurt there; there can be no doubt
Sleeplessly aching, you sit in the nothing
And wonder will you always live without
Peering through diamonds on frost-covered windows
You wish yourself on the other side
Trying to connect to that feeling once held
You take chase, hoping to collide
Only to fall at the sound of goodbye
Generations
Fathers build, and mothers smile
Bear their fruit to drop their seeds
Within us all lives, a child
In soil rich beneath the weeds
Years of changing faces
Given eyes tell the truth
Aged lines leave subtle traces
Still, born from just one root
The torch we pass is everlasting
Red embers of bloodline names
Many molds from just one casting
Each one different but yet the same
Still, the foe of time fights against us
Always the victor in the field
Though we struggle with a mighty vengeance
We suffer a wound that never heals
Faces change to granite markers
Fleeting memories of what we were
Photographs in old footlockers
Become unfocused, faded, and blurred
Like the horizon steals the sunset
The ages rob our life of time
Yet like the sunrise in the morning
Another life is born from mine
Immortality does exist
Survived with each new fertile womb
Nature’s own enduring seed
Again will flower, again will bloom
Night Has Fallen
Night has fallen
Risen over dusk
Cooling with comfort
It blankets all of us
Melodies sung from feathers
Fade to silence in the night
Wing covered beaks
Reposed in shadows far from sight
Moonlit rays, filtered light
Seeping cracks, beams of white
Velvet breeze, smooth-n-plush
Softly rustles through the brush
Images of willing spirits
Donned by Luna’s grace
Pass the moon to say goodbye
Then drift to another place
Blazing trails across the sky
Witnessing final flight
A shooting star burns then dies
Freeing wishes to the night
Dreams fill the slowing pace of
Cascading light at day’s end
The sun fades til morrow
Night has fallen again
Copyright © 2023 Thomas K. Hunt
