Twilight Songs

Irina Dimitric

Mosman, New South Wales

Australia

 

Once upon a time
You were like a butterfly
Here and there and everywhere
Now you are stuck in a wheelchair

Once you sighed day in day out
‘Why must I live so long?’
Now you’re blissfully content
You don’t remember
What you’ve ever said

You live in a foreign land
Like most in the dining room today
The piano plays soft melodies
Of bygone years, I feel my eyes
Well up with tears

Tears keep rolling
Down my cheeks
As I watch you sitting
Motionless, expressionless
I turn away my face:

A young nurse’s belly carries
A new life, a new beginning
Amidst the very ending
My tears keep rolling
Down to my trembling lips

The nurse keeps smiling
Her words are sweet
‘Come on love, up you go
One two three, well done
Hang on to your walker, dear’
The old soul, half her size
Slowly shuffles on

I shed one more tear
My wet eyes I wipe …
The piano played
Their songs and mine
Once upon a time

Bio: Irina enjoys writing poetry and short stories. Her recent passion is photography and many of her poems have been inspired by her photographs. She likes both free verse and form poetry. Her writings have been published online and in print. She is the creator of the ‘tercetonine’, a new form of tercet, which can be seen on her blog at http:// www.irinadim.com and in her first book of poetry, ‘Dreams On My Pillow’, published in 2014 and available on Amazon, Xlibris Bookstore and Barnes&Noble. Irina can be contacted on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Irina Dimitric-Stojic.