B.O.H.I.C.A. Poem by Michael Walkerjohn

Phones sharp ringing
minds dispel
life's quagmires reaming
hearts distill
family's grieving living's ride
through hell
choice made hoping one's
survival will
carry these moments both chaste
and shrill
beyond the present past heartbreak
and chill
through sorrows glanced and
future's thrill
past empty souls
breath's groveling spills
providence that once gifted thought
oh! sun drenched hill...
where as child and parent
played to their fill
thoughts rapt of heaven's light
and not world's ills
circling around all of US
despoiling laughter's cheer
opposing truth's insides
exposing what is where
health's fleeting moments
those dreams never dared
slipping greedily down
living's last thought of care...
sustenance, enough of it
flee this reality's scare
reviewing one duality with which
all can compare
love's implicit commonality
in life one must bare
burdens beyond thinking's scattering
of all that we hear
within conscience speaking
as families all must wear
living's adversities
with quiet smiles and persevere...
lessons true gravity
that fear is all life's domineer.