Survival smile
moved me closer
in joyful acquiescence...
to stare into beautiful blue tranquil luminosity
blessed with heavenly ecstasy
the day my grandma died.
Indemnifying spirit
Embracing affiance,
Respect your tender responsive kisses
when we met; Silent unspoken courage,
did metaphorically erase past abuses...
Fortitude, now frightened?
New breaths together in tropical sunshine,
warm, passionate moments filled with adventure...
Survival, not love
moved you to remember forgotten hurts;
Strength's paradoxical rebirth
clouded you from me.
My brave warrior, reclaiming our peaceful surrender
Happy "survival smiling" beyond survival's pit!
D.B. Hanewich
11/13/96
For Kelly
Received Editors Choice Award
The National Library of Poetry
Best Poems of 1997, page 260
with little Carole...
typical Alpha Ape)!
