Where Do Souls Go?
Where do souls go when they have been pulled
too abruptly from their lives?
Do they bang into each other vying for space and travel
to meet with others who have passed suddenly
or descend to loved ones to say goodbye?
Funereal Boat
Funereal Boat
Our parents are still ours to bury
even if we needed to detach from them
in adulthood for safety.
You cannot unhook them from an ancestral tree,
as if a parent were a Christmas ornament,
a mean-jolly Santa Klaus,
and replace them with someone
from another culture and time,
a younger friend in your own time,
Peter Pan or Wonder Woman,
who understands and supports you…