Was that the wind
A tempest blew,
Or ‘stead,
Vestiges of my life
Gone whooshing by?
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Skyward
Cast me ashes to the sky
When done my time to be,
As the winsome butterfly,
Free
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Account
Indigo
stains the aged parchment
there, left bold,
the canon
chronicles all my days,
all their Nights
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Canvas
Paint me a pastoral solace,
Snake a path ’round emerald hills,
Roam newborn calves and lambs,
Red brush me a barn atop the hill
Dab in shady oaks, string my swaying bed
Where I may slow breathe my sunset days
Unbound, free to farm new memories.
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