For Amanda

One step at a time, one breath at a time;
seconds down the rabbit hole,
Alice walks to Underland
with the Undertaker, hand in hand.
Constant merger with reality and dreams,
and the end becomes the beginning,
and the beginning becomes the end.
She is dying but is living:
One step, one breath, one hug, one kiss
one final moment, one last closing of the eyes.
She lets go, and he sees her off,
and a bluebird flies over the swelling sea,
and blue birds fly over the swelling sea
towards the rising sun.