The Final Betrayal

to become part of the landscape

continue as a thread woven through it

a song a sound heard in the distance

an echo of a life a whisper in the wind

my mother wanted her ashes

to be spread in Lapland

the dream she could never permanently achieve

the Arctic shores of Norway she gave up

to have us instead

but you can't do that

spread human remains even in ashes

to become part of the loved land

the endless days of Sun in Summer

the long night of the Winter

so near parents sister and nephew

in the old home county

graveyard instead

another betrayal clipped wings

even in death so sorry my mother

that even now you can't soar

to be the land you loved and dreamed of

because law was put before love

24.05.2015