Second Spring

Left eye fear
right eye hate,
hold my two fingers
while darkness lingers.
a new past beckons.

Thread bare resolve
long worn-thin;
will time dilute
ease or dissolve this dusk?
Don’t fear, daylight’s near.

You lived through your nightmares,
you slept through your dreams;
you scream at the dawn
after you whispered it goodnight,
let existence become life.

Lonely child with
smiling eyes and salty cheeks;
the louder the untold pain
the deeper the echo,
but cries of laughter
now fill our days.

Curled up lip, talk to unzip,
smile to unleash
day by day memories fade and decay.
Childhood’s summers passed you by,
come flower in the Second Spring.