she lives at the deep part of the <br />mountain <br />a sea of trees and a shoreline of grasses <br />now she is stricken with cancer <br />and dying <br />she says she will not last for another day <br />and she gives me her treasure <br />she kept for years <br />her life and now the time has come <br />to entrust what she wrapped <br />with red silk <br />her manuscripts of poems <br />her dreams and fantasies <br />her lamentations <br />her dialogue with the cliff <br />her songs to the pebbles <br />her love of life <br />her surrender to death <br />her communion with nature <br />her story of the river <br />her prayers offered to the sea <br />her belief to the might of the sun <br />her tranquility with the moon.<br /><br />Suki Nakamura<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/visiting-a-sister/
