PORTRAIT OF A LINEAGE, Part 6

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Austin

Part 6, the penultimate of the series of Sonja Eisenberg's poetry, here performed by my sister Audrey Wintory:

All is gone

The sun's grace

Paradise

All is ebbing tide.

A woman deserted

Grown tired with time

Is blind sorrow,

Even rocks eventually shift

After summers of rain

Andy

As a young-ish man, it is a bit hard to directly relate to this poem, but I have felt this all is gone desperation.Breaking a piggy bank to me is such a last resort thing (and I would never actually break this one.) But to me it symbolizes being completely out of options, all your plans and savings gone.