Echoes

 And we are just echoes of a love

All childhood

The love of our parents

Is the first love

Then I was a child

Like an egg broken

The child grows up and tries again to

Be whole

Like a child again

Girl becomes a mother

In an echo of a woman

She once knew who loved her

The boy becomes a man in an echo of his father

And in echoes we ache to be loved

We ache to be this whole

But each vibration of life

Shakes us further apart

Stretches out our frequencies

If you're lucky you

Get on somebody's wave length

And love is an echo,

An oscillation

Until the adult shell breaks 

And the ego

Drifts

And childhood is everywhere

In dementia

The echoes of childhood are strong

As the love, the need for love again

Of the parents