From Womb To Womb Poem by Dennis Lange

From Womb To Womb



My grand granddaughter sleeps a lot;
She's waking to the world
Like Rip Van Winkle must have stretched
When consciousness was swirled.

My old, old father sleeps a lot,
Retreating from the world.
I visit, finding him asleep
In chair, or in bed, curled.

And so it seems, at the extremes
Of life upon the earth,
There is a differing sameness
In exit and in birth.

Saturday, July 26, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: death
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I wrote this poem after observing the two, just weeks before my father died. Dennis Lange, the bard on the hill
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