Poetry #2 – Going Home

Going Home

Generations gather, tartan

covered caskets,

family, memories, tears

sixty years departed

arrival

through the harbour

boat now drifts

toward home.

 

Deep sea, sunless sky

dark celebration, heritage, home, heart

four daughters line the deck

ashes, reflections

merge deep

behold a great ball

aqua light

below dark surface

 

Transfixed wonder

ashes glow in suspended unity.

two tiny feathers

float white

against black birdless sky.

Harry Lauder sings:

will ye stop y’re tickling Jock

we watch and weep and laugh.