today

today i'm thinking of my mother

all those who've gone before

aunts and uncles father nephew

all at my hearts door

how i miss them all this morning

as into my aging soul i gaze

how they touched me every one

how the helped me on my way

i know that years from now i'll join them

along with those i never knew

and those i love will be there with me

in that ever giving living brew

how i miss their gentle voices

in the easy southern evenings

the porch swings sweetly creaking

softly talking of their day things

oh those days when all was safety

lying on my mothers breast

hearing all that moved inside her

a symphony of that refuges rest

oh my life has been so noisy

filled with failed ambitions voice

running hard from all who left me

out of safety comforts choice

far from where i fell

from heavens lifelike gift

i sit here with a newish life

an engame and a risk

love has found me here at last

with guides that i have known

lending me their gracefilled hands

at last i have a home

but still i long for voices there

for gentle soothing hands

of those i loved so long ago

in that great distant land