“Where Is She Now?”

“If only the winds had blown westward that day from the mountain we both lay instead of east.   If only…

             Years later, I still don’t know why they did. They took something beautiful and cast it into the night sky while we slept in love’s cocoon and unknowingly said goodbye.

Winds of Life are invisible, but their effects are not. And for one night our plans for life and love were clear, and dreams of joy cloaked us as we slept.

It may have been my fault, I don’t know. Winds were swirling that morning as we woke, and our dreams became fragile  by their misdirection. The safety of our love cocoon became unraveled as snow bit the window panes and the coldness of reality came through. 

We lay naked and vulnerable to those morning winds reminding us of who we were. 

No matter now, east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.  So they say anyway. 

But once upon a time, she and I did, and it was beautiful.  I have discovered since that no matter which way the wind blows, they blow her softness, her fragrance, and briefly, her love across my mind…       

Michael Vincent 2024

"Once We Were One..."

"From the beginning, I knew that you would be, the very best part of me...

And when I learned that we were One, A mother I'd become to a daughter or a son. To God I prayed that I would be, the kind of mother His daughter should be.

I laughed, I cried, and I worried too, that the best of me was the best for you. There were things to teach I did not know, Patience and kindness and special love to show.

"And Then You Came..."

And from that time I knew, that you would be the very best, part of me...

No earthly time is enough, it seems, to pass to her child a mother's dreams. And if I've failed in some measure or test, Forgive me, please, I wasn't sure what I knew was best.

So through Time's door and into tomorrows, Remember our laughs, our talks, and yes, our sorrows. For a mother's love is endless, once begun, For that part of her that Once was One...

Michael Vincent