I grew up basking

May 25

Written By Lee DeNoya

I grew up basking
under the double loving suns of
my mom and grandmother’s faces.

Enough as I was
and loved, carried in their current of
sustained and patient graces.

Buoyed
in a cool soothing kindness pool
filled by their tributary streams of belief.

Favored
by their everfair breezes
while I sailed the seas of possibility, seeking.

Some seekers
never find a following sea;
they drift becalmed, or toss upon the gale.

May evening
bring a fair and fragrant breeze,
to lift you free, and launch you on your way.

Lee DeNoya - Atlanta, May 2022

Lee DeNoya

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