“Gogo and the Ancestors”
Painting by Marietje Henning
From fineartamerica.com
walk among spirits
listen for heartbeats
haunting signals that
mark present empathic
ghosts claiming seats
in your memories
lifelike with breathing
attuned to your own
a concert of murmurs
confined to your mind
enlarging yourself by
including those lives
gone before you those
lives who enhance you
connect to your story
those shoulders you
stand on to see your
tomorrows imagine
your following sequels
these prequels that
made you before
you were born
Filed under: Free Verse, POETRY
