That thy days may belong…

You barked your goodbye
this side of the grave
Every gnashing word,
Each dismissive shrug
opened fresh earth,
turning pensive sod.

Skimming days tumble
with no reprieve
one more night nail in coffin lid
unkind spikes in the plank I walk
to island new
through forbidden tears

your indifference
smells throughout the years,
false banker of the family soul
dealer in tainted metal.

Yet this dragon gathers yet
His bauble hoard and spangled sentiment
To glare in these darkening years.
Yet no aid these for frenzied flap
of withered wing against the closing door

You left clue enough
To drop even the grimmest rogue
Through dawn’s lonely hatch.

You cling to flimsy flotsam
With your seaman soul
Though no lagan goods will mark
Your fall in deepest sea.
Apotheopean spark
drowned In mourning waters

Peace has washed clear the merit
That war and troubled times
Hung on that inflated breast.
Survival strips away
All noble semblance
You gathered round hollow bones.

No false tears  shed now
At this damp pit
Dressed in lamp black
I mourn each day of passing
Through the leftovers of your life

I would not wound
Nor uncover the coins
You laid on myopic eyes
My gift, the scars
I bear on this tender soul
 

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