So Quiet

[Kevin J Bates Jr]

Let me sit here
5 more minutes, let me sit here and look

I remember the coffin’s weight
I almost dropped it
It contained my mother’s body
I’d never drop it

Let me sit here in the still
My mother loved the winter here,
Quiet

4am… 5, 6
3 more minutes
Maybe 2
Maybe less

I love to watch the flurries flutter
Slowly, softly flutter, fall
White silence; Black morning
My mother’s pain; black as ice
She’s gone and all is now so quiet…
As silent as discs of snow falling upon a crypt

--Kevin J Bates Jr--