Ashes to Ashes

Your ashes swirl around
In the field to the south of the house
The rocks that you carefully found
Have buried their way right back into the ground

Built what you had by the work of your hands
Passed it along with a smile and a laugh
All that you've given's been broken in half
And the children you loved
Scattered like chaff

Over the mountains and onto the plains
You cradled your love like a renegade flame
Burning down fear and enticing the rain
To laugh, and to dance as she joined in your game

Fire in your belly and fire in the dark
The world is made warmer wherever you are
All of those fires are started with sparks
And the babies are born with the sun in their hearts

The trees that you planted in fullness of spring
Gave shelter to neighbors and birds of the wing
Lovely as autumn the thoughts that you'd think
And lovelier still, were the songs you'd sing

Ashes to ashes and dust back to dust
The time that we had doesn't seem like enough
The bones of your trees now they sigh and they crack
Under weight of the feet that might never come back