Parental Matercide

Water settle upon
A bruised, waiting earth

Cold and barren
With seeds just below
The earthen surface

Slowly green stems
Split the ground
Tearing the dirt membrane
Like dolphins for air

The green dolphins
Leap impossibly high for the sun
Drinking its light
And its nourishment
Except those that fell below

Those that never see
The sun in her glory
Except those cloaked
In the shade of the soil

Those that will never rise
Those within bruised, waiting,
Earth aching to recover

Set on a barren path
To a cold end