"Mom's Gentle Thoughts" Effigi

EFFIGI

by MacLim

Yonder I behold you
Demigod who dwells
In etheral impossibility
Bounded by neons and neons\
That even mirages can't delve.

Why had the warmth
Of your lifelike nearness
Thawed the glaciers
Of attrocious winter,
The biting frosts to the fires
Of your seeming presence?

Why had you descended
On wings of dream -
Eyes that seemingly were lifelike
Glinted with ecstatic lovelight
Dancing beyond fathomless ebony depths?

Why had the fallacious granite bastion
That rose as time's inevitable aftermathe
Started to crumble under the strain
of your soaring might?

Happy I am to behold you
through that crystalline wall
That mercifully divides us
For from hence freedom is mine
To worship a forlorn god
Within the somber walls
Of a heathen heart -
For you are a symbol of a life
That once was not -
The parallel of fate
That never will.

- To love and to treasure
In a fashion
That weathers all seasons
And knows no age
Forever, and ever
And ever.