Dear Mother

For 86 years the good earth
Has supported this body.
Trying to repay,
I have made many mistakes.
But they are forgiven.
We smile at each other, a little sadly.

- Kaijun

 

Remembering Kaijun

It is in going that we leave the void,

which was always here.

The empty empty void. 

Empty empty...

Yesterday night,

I dreamt that my kindest

dearest bravest mother was no more

Enraged, engulfed in sorrow

I did not want to wake up

It did not matter

The life was gone

There is no one here to move around now

No one to give life

No one to fill that void

Mother!

Truest of all, death

You could not have come at a better time.