My Daughters and I

Love filled joy in this reconnection
Heart ripped apart and tears emerged
When heart and mind went to sad reflection
When daughters and father together were once merged
Time that can never be regained
Patience a virtue to endure
Through suffering and pain enflamed
Thinking of them daily without cure
Detachment impossibly engrained
Patient non-attachment seems like hell
When we meet again, I cannot tell
Accepting what I can't control
Life is suffering as I burn in hell
Tears come to quench fires of the soul
Yearning for wonderful reunition
As life's energy gets reignition
Once again a burning whole
Clarified fire enlivening soul
:(:

Michael Eckardt
20 May 2018