Summer Blue
Oh Grief my new friend
I never knew
That humans could feel
Such a mighty emotion.
No words can touch
That visceral place
The canyon within us
Which knows no bottom.
I am a deep well
Filling with fire
A slow and cold burn
My mother is gone.
Tears on my pillow
On my sleeve
In my workplace
Come unannounced.
Oh moon you are waning
Pulling my tear tides
On to that dark place
Where comfort abides.
My friends and my family
Are here for each other
My mother is free now
But I am forlorn.
Oh Mother of Darkness
You cover me gently
And whisper inside me
My Mother is near.
I walk in the wind gales
And see summer fading
Even though
It has just begun.
And so is our passing
Like clouds that are racing
Across the blue sky
Before the night falls.
Oh Nature, Great Mother
Please hold me and guide me
And help me find comfort
In nature and sea.
And let me give solace
To others who need it
For your Priestess and Midwife
I continue to be.
--- Holley Diana
July 2, 1999
