Some break free to edges budge.
Most stay mired in bubbling sludge.
No more pulled by skyward glance.
Thoughts beyond, a happenstance.
Solemn sweet to think of past.
Ties that broke when life pulled fast.
Occupied with this life’s work.
Pressure held by tombstone’s cork.
Thoughts waft by of those released.
Lost by time, survived, deceased.

