I Can Still Feel Grief

I Can Still Feel Grief
© Surazeus
2023 10 07

Five thousand years later I can still feel grief 
young girl felt when her grandmother died. 
While her busy clan tends crops in lush fields 
she takes old woman walking in the woods 
where they sit by the river and watch birds 
flit between trees as they sing about love. 

At first the young girl is annoyed and bored 
having to take her grandmother for walks, 
but as they sit beneath the willow tree 
she listens to old woman with gray hair 
babble about when she was a young girl, 
running with horses on the river shore. 

Arm cradling frail woman with tender care, 
the young girl helps her walk along lush fields 
where men and women bent in labor tend 
crops for god who rules on the pyramid, 
and they all beam with joyful smiles to see 
her gray hair gleaming silver in the sun. 

Gasping for breath as the moon shimmers gold, 
the oldest woman in the world smiles bright 
at young granddaughter who holds her frail hand, 
then closes her eyes and sinks into gloom. 
Five thousand years later I can still feel grief 
young girl felt when her grandmother died.