December 2, 2019, michaelbray Family Matters, Poetry, Sanctity of Human Beings, Wilmington Ohio,

Here I sit

2 Dec. 2019

Here I sit in my own temple
Music pouring about my ears
To the right travel my feet on water
Over lands and cities distant
Midway are the books of record
History, family, things to know
And to the side is Mercy’s tree
Red and black with faces adorned
They smile at me, I think
And I think some more
Ever glad that she bore
Those eleven and one never-forgotten
Anastasia the hope of resurrection

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