My Poetry

All alone,
GONE.
Vanished from sight...
Alone in the dark...
What have we done??????

You are not forgotten...
Not one of those,
helpless souls.
lost in a void of space...

stars surround you
smiling down on you
"I'm sorry," you whisper
"Time to go," you think

A young child,
scared of the World
swallowed up into darkness

where were they?
the ones who laughed
did you laugh too?
or were you silently crying?
Where are you?!

--In memory of Gray Donnelly, 1979-1997

� 1997

Hot, stemy summer days,
we laughed and talked
until...
the darkness of night settled in.

A Spark of fire in the yard,
drinks passed around,
Marshmallows roasting,
wood burning...

Talk into the wee hours of morning,
when one,
by
one
We'd fall into slumber.
Only to awake to the same ritual,
night
after
night.

� 1995