Saudade

We lived like flowers 

wild and beautiful

soaked up the sun

drenched in the rain

shadowed by boughs overhead.

We hummed with the bees

and danced with the falling leaves.

The squirrels played with us 

while the birds sang

melodies of times immemorial.

We did not know grief

which grow like a weed.

Seasons changed

And we grew

Like that seed

breaking the brittle walls 

of dying shells.

And suddenly, the world 

was a changed place,

Of sobs, hurricanes and revenge.

Now I stand alone

deep within the rivers of my soul

hearing the approaching sea.