July remembrance

Far behind now
The memory
of the darkened house
and the starlit sky

The roads are now quiet
the beaches deserted
the machair flowers wave
calling out your name

Enhanced by your memory
your music and spirit
We espy the mermaid
in eternal seas, singing of life

She who knows all
awaits at the Window on the West
as we that are left behind
smile wistfully at your memory

Winter and decline

You're now in your winter
days growing short
whizzing by
at a rate of knots

Fighting each day
some of them good
more of them bad
a little boost sometime

I wander about
look at places
we used to go
where you won't go again

Your world has now shrunk
to just four familiar walls
of many years
your homely abode

Not much left of you now
Not much left for you now
Those you have missed
over many hard years

Will be waiting
to welcome you home
under the stars
by the endless sea