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My Grandfather

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Creosote
On a hot
Day.
I lack the words to say
How the smell
(I know so well)
Carried me away
To where I can not stay,
For he has gone into the forest green
(Which I have seen
Though I can not follow him yet).

I can not forget
Those happy days (now tinged with regret)
For a fence does divide.
Yet he lives inside
My heart
And is forever a part
Of me.

The land I see
Beyond the fence is lush
With tree and bush.
I can not rush
And no not when
I shall see him again.
But see I must
For I am dust
As he
Who loved me.

The Wall (Dedicated To My Grandfather)

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The wall seemed so high.

Acorns fell as from the sky.

There they would lie

To be collected by you and I.

The acorn’s hard shell.

I remember it well.

The smell of the wood

Natural and good.

Now the wall is to high

And on the other side you lie.