Ebb & Flow - Visitor's Poem

by Kathleen Marie Drew
(NY, USA)

Out, out brief candle,
A bard penned on a midsummer's night;
Out of chaos, one finds reason,
When reason slumbers, turn on the light.

Will this act be comedy, or merely tragic?
Your soul yearns to be enlightened;
We must learn to accept both gracefully,
To find our voice when we are frightened.

An empty canvas etched in heartache,
You save lives but not your own;
On you the spotlight is now shining,
Make some music out of ill-starred woes!

For you now have a beautiful angel,
To watch over your troubled dreams;
A fish now rises to the ebb & flow,
Of a sparkling, glorious stream.


Kathleen Marie Drew 2002