Elephant

23 March 2018

Death is but a passage to another dimension so they say–

and some days I can believe that.

Many days I am almost sure I will see you again–

you have told me that yourself.

Some days I am close to accepting the unfathomable reality of your absence–

yet I am a human animal.

Like a mother elephant standing over her fallen calf, my body and all my senses will cry for you as long as  I live on this cruel and beautiful and thoroughly incomprehensible earth.