My Monday Metrical Musings #137

I Never Saw Up Close…

I never saw up close…
…Matterhorn’s snow-capped mountain range
…Emily Dickinson’s window pane
…the slick Orient Express train.

I never saw up close…
…the Duchess of Windsor’s string of pearls
…the Kentucky Derby’s joyful Whirl(away)
…the star-spangled banner unfurl.

I never saw up close…
…what drives people insane
…what moves them to profane
…the truth set free from restraint.

I never saw up close…
…my father’s old hometown
…what in his life makes him smile
…nor the lies he tells himself.

I never saw up close…
…my son’s amygdala
…the synapses on fire
…his broken raison d’etre.

I never saw up close…
…the friends that walketh with me
…how the sun shineth over me
…the trees sashaying around me.

I only saw up close…
…my own faults and failings
…my hurts and unravelings
…my world slowly collapsing.

One day I long to see up close…
…my Saviour and my final home
…my worries dissolve like wispy foam
…my sadness buried in an unmarked tomb