their shadows yet uncast

from dust to dust
and beat to breath
we divide by life
and unite by death

from mind to heart
and earth to sun
the times have passed
and deeds are done

from heart to ground
and seed to seed
all changes flow like water
to the ones who need

from heightened frames of mind
to capture simple frames of time
who seek to hold on to those valued things
their memories an empty mime

to mourn a silent ode
to all the ages that have passed
to those who hold in memories
their shadows yet uncast.

i look and see inside my heart
those very shadowed fragments
now revealing somber solitudes
from things i had attachments

their shadows yet uncast
chained to the walls of my own mind
those things become my lonely company
still blinded by the light i cannot find

their memories an empty mime
i lose myself inside that solitude
retracting from the world of absent mind
into my shell of bliss and gratitude

away from ways in which we take for granted
i am firmly planted in my own internal world
unaware, my rhythms slowly fading
the flowers of my mind become unfurled

still blinded by the light i cannot find
i look and see inside my heart
those shadows i'll now cast away
from me that do no part

from dust to dust
and heart to ground
i put myself at ease
my healing has been found.