Train

‘Train’ trgates, 8/31/2018
Immortality knocks daily,
today is always its day.
By brain, or heart, whatever -
the Slow Train Coming will arrive.
Mortality knocks daily,
today is always its day.
the train arrives, always on time,
without a request,
it says, “it’s time, the car will take you to the crossing,”
immortality, and mortality
do a brief two-step,
saying respectively,
“Hello,” and, “Goodbye.”
“All aboard, all aboard.”

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Vechnaya Pamyat-Memory Eternal, (Slavonic-Russian) — breath shared, and when face to face ceases, neither  is there qualitative, quantifiable words. So we intone in brevity, love. From all over the Country, spontaneously joining a funeral dirge of love’s grief in front of the 9/11 memorial. 

'I know....'               trgates,9/12/2017

I have no idea what to do when someone I love dies. 

I know this, you hurt like hell

I know this, you remember the weirdest things

I know this, you miss those things said that you vowed to never say

I know this, this who suffered you're glad they're done with that

I know this, I know grief changes

I know this, love knows no death

I know this, perhaps I know little,

I know this, I continue to intone, 

I sing, "Vechnaya Pamyat-Memory Eternal