She remembers her vivacious youth, as tears silently dampen her wrinkled cheeks
In her mind's eye she sees herself as she once was, young and eager, like newly ripened fruits reaching for eager hands
Life floated by then, like passing ships. Now to time she sadly implores; what happened to my youthful exuberance!
Exhausted, she wonders in quiet reminiscence as teardrops splash on breasts that no longer saluted the sky
Now, as she watches the grandchildren flitting like colorful butterflies betwixt her carefully tended rose garden
Comes upon the wind the grim reaper. She was not ready, needed more time to hug her loved ones. One child turns, her favorite, runs to her...hugs her
Exclaiming, "Grandma, I love you". She surrendered her existence as her peace-filled eyes closed for the last time on this side of the veil!
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About the Creator
Antoni De'Leon
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Helen Keller).
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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this is the sad reality, our day of exit must come, we just hope that it will be peaceful and painless
Lovely and well-wrought!
Death should not be feared, yet the fear of the unknown is human in nature,
What a beautiful and hauntingly sad poem. Lovely.
sad yet wonderful
Awww, this was so wonderful! Loved your Acrostic!