A Lifetime of Mays

I watch the deep cerulean blues
Listen to the rolling thunder
The tarps slip free
as the sun crests the trees

A vibrant hue 
A chorus of screams
A winter of silence shattered 
The ancient and forgotten no longer battered

Silver chrome winks in the setting sun
human life so fragile as much as theirs 

A bond uncertain about to begin
As I caress your metal fin. 

I check your heart and find it needing
The lungs and throat dirty and scratched.
Your stomach hangs, bleeding. 
Your once satin smooth hide torn and ripped
I give you a part of my soul
I toil to return you to your youth
and lose mine in return.


I watch the cancer fade in you to become mine
You and your children farther apart than the stars
In time I am forced to relinquish you
your beauty now restored
Mine destroyed and decayed. 
 
I weep as you purr softly towards the blacktop. 
A Eternal lover's whisper to me,
"Thank you."