For Mom - after a first visit to Academy Point

With a command view

Of the Mystic Harbor

End of life is a time of life

With an idiom all its own

As the fire banks lower

It shows us how to re-calibrate hope

Downward moment to moment

Taking comfort in the ebb and flow

Of the Mystic River itself

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It's all assisted living

From the midwife's first slap

To our dying embrace

The passions we lay claim to

As our own most assuredly

Are merely borrowed from

Some ulterior place
All the closer to which
You now reside