The Voyage (poem)

Mother, I miss you,

For I can no longer

Spill over the fruits

Of my harvest

To your willing ears,

To your captive smile,

To your thousand

Acclamations.

Mother, I miss you:

My distaff, divine rod,

My compass, pointing

True North,

Guiding me through peril,

Traversing the morass

Of fear, quenching me,

Spinning laughter.

Mother, I miss you,

Conspirator, confidante,

Keeper of secrets

Inviolate.

Locked in your garden,

My darkest desires

Seeded and sprouted

And bloomed.

Mother, I miss you,

You gypsy, you roamer,

You wandering, wily

Card-poster:

What ship have you left on,

What voyage embarked on,

Without booking passage

For me?

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