We Missed You

We missed you, my dear, this Christmas Day.
Seems years long, since you went away.
Leaving this valley where we used to roam.
The special one we call home.

Everywhere I look, I remember you.
In the faces, the smiles of friends we both knew.
In the places and the spaces
Where we ran and grew.

The first ski race
The day I fell for you.
In every memory
In every breath I drew.
I knew some day
You would love me too.

A reflection of your face
Comes across my mind.
I know if you had the choice
You would not leave us all behind.

Being in this valley on Christmas Day.
Makes me know in every way
How very blessed we both were
To savor life here in a blur.

We missed you, my dear, this Christmas Day
Your friends, me and your children two.
We loved you, my dear, in every way.
Thankful for each precious day.

So this night a glass we shall lift,
To the joy and the gift
You gave to us with your love
Even now from above.

Lesley M Mercill 2015 (c)

Remember parties on spring gulch
Sledding down the pass
Kisses in moonlight
Time fleeing by so fast.

Blood Ivory

Look out with newborn eyes' first awe.
Feel the hard beat of land so raw,
Sense the breadth of its bare soul. 
Feel it pierce above. Below.

We knew not the cost for man,
To walk, to gaze upon this land.
Land built on bones, hide and dust,
Remaining witness to unholy lust.

Evil ones who kill and maim,
Taking down in sport insane.
Leaving rhino souls in graves unjust.
Bought down to powdered, crumbled dust.

Ancient shadows walking through,
Looking out from the bush, straight at you.
Apparitions living, yet ghosts of past,
Not knowing if this breath will be the last.

Watching those who aid the damning lie,
Seeing rhinos shot, stumble, and die,
Blood ivory stolen, slashed off for gold.
God damn those with hearts so cold.

One by one, horn by horn, their spirits go.
Human greed may leave us none,
This great armored-one of the past,
Laid low to lust and avarice.

Spirit asks we honor those ancient ones killed,
Humanity end now the blood-ocean spilled.
A sacred promise there forever be,
Rhinos wild...African and free.

Need

The magic of you has wrapped around my heart.
I need to entwine my Self with you.
I want to take you so very deep
So deep we are not two.

I need to scream your name with primal force.
To feel your skin on mine.
To have you feed my soul your fire.
Melt me up-now down my spine.

Let me hold you in my passion
Fly as far as we can go.
Up to the heights of bliss
Where you can touch my soul.

I beg you take me there.
Shatter me with raw desire.
Take me where I have never been.
To dance the flame of fire.

Take me there now.
Ignite a blaze of desire.
Burn me with your need
Scorch me with your fire. 


Hold me with the strength of you.
Devour me with your need.
Glisten with my wetness.
Watch you glisten too.

I must taste the sweetness
Deep within your bones.
The feeling of your love
Is the light to bring me home.

Let us fly together
Higher than any bird who ever flew.
Let us bond forever
In a dance both old and new.

Sign My Name in Blood (for Jeff)

Wrap up my pain,
Make it all shiny bright.
Etch it with your name.
Tie it up so very tight.

Stitch it with living thread.
Let it not escape into the night.
Place it open by the bed.
Out. In plain sight.

Sign my pain in your blood.
Drip it over me.
Let it flow, become a flood.
Splash it high for all to see.

The loss
it so shattered.
Left floating pieces of my soul.
Like
nothing
else mattered.
Not one piece left whole.

I wanted to live wild.
We both reached for the top.
You were brought down,
Me, I could not stop.

Racing the wind, being wild and free,
Comes with a price
A price most cannot see.

You fly. You fall.
I scream.  I call.

But no one answers.
You are never there.
I have searched long,
Searched everywhere.

Trying hard to regain.
All that was lost.

To find myself,
before the pain.
To love again,
despite the cost.

​(c)  Lesley M Mercill 2015 All Rights Reserved.

Your Last Flight

You were young and we were wild.
I remember my love for you.
We lived with the abandon of a child.
We touched but you never knew,
How much I loved; I lived for you.

We were young and you were free.
I was just another girl to see. 
I watched you fly and fearless ski.
Wanting you to notice me.
You never saw how much I knew.
How I wanted  to be just with you.

You flew higher and higher,
Soaring your way to the top.
Faster and further,
Until hitting a final stop.

Gone forever,
Faster than a single tear could drop.

I heard it on the news.
My eyes bled tears.
A blinding loss of light,
Frozen forever in your last flight.

You died on that mountain.
Flying higher than one should ever go.
Leaving us behind,
Staring at that crimson snow.

Why did your flame burn so bright,
Then go with no remaining light.
Why do I so silently scream?
Why do I still dream,
Of you in the dark night?

I remember your light.
I remember your touch.
I watched you soar. 
I loved you so much.

I watched you jump.
I watched you fall.

I remember the loss, the most of all.

Help Me out and Into your Clothes

Help me out here.
I need some clothes, dear.
I want yours
Get into my clothes.
I will get into you.

No one seems to care.
If I do or do not my hair.
How can it be
You seeing me
or me being me.