Once More, For Betzabe
Are you happy?
Is the wind blowing within you?
Does a mourning dove rest on your shoulder?
Do you wear in your lapel murmurs and caresses of your mother?
Are you conversant with the muted stirrings of yourself?
Have you washed in the rivulets of your sorrow?
Do you vanish with the passing of each day?
Can traces of yourself be found among leftover memorabilia?
And the geese, are the geese flying through your head?
And the grass, is its memorable uprightness yours?
And whose silence is it that you have listened for so intently?
Are you happy?
Frank C. Praeger is a retired biologist who lives in the Keweenaw which is a peninnsula that juts out from the northwest corner of the Upper Pennisula of Michigan into Lake Superior. His poetry has appeared in various journals in both UK and USA.