After the Death

Relationships, Remembering / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Memorial / July 18, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

These are the days of the rats in the cages

The burrowing into sawdust corners
the gnawing on bars
and the running on wheels
mostly the running on wheels

Even at night, specially at night
while God in his lab coat naps in the corner

and you know with perfect logic and insanity

If you could just do it fast enough
if you could just do it right enough

Like the wheels of old watches
all the cogs would fit the way they used to
when the good ones all had jewels
sleeping safe in their dark cases

And each morning you had to wind them up
if you wanted hours in your day

And you know, wish, know, wish, know,
that there is another way that this must go

And if you could just get the woulda, coulda
shoulda, coulda, woulda, shoulda; woulda,
coulda, shoulda, woulda, wheels
to mesh their gears just right

You could turn it all back

16 years later, her friends are still holding the “Colours of Tiltan” annual memorial swim meet.

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