Kiss Buttterfly Wings

Kiss butterfly wings as you pass
Into the sphere beyond
My wildest dreams and
Beyond all imagination.
Err not to glance back
Realizing what you have forsaken,
Lest you doubt
Your journey through the stars.

Joyous hordes will welcome you.
Oblivion, like anesthesia,
Your home on earth will erase. But,
Come again to us,
Early in the morning as dreams awaken

Something in the air that
Melts into the dawn.
Only do forget
The pain that is ours.
Heavens claim you as their own,
Even as you deny time and love and earth that confined you.
Remember, we do not forget
Something as pure and golden as you.

Days will pass for us,
And some say the time that confined you,
Will ease the sorrow that we feel.
Still, the choice was ours.
Only love extends our hearts,
Not knowing quite the risk we always take.



Joyce Green Sells
March 14, 2006

Acrostic poem written by our mother in memory of Kim.