Quinoa and beyond

High up in the Andes

calderas everywhere

wonderful volcanoes

and clean sweet  mountain air

coming back one night
the air freezing everywhere

found a couple of ladies

hoping they could share

our van both of them freezing

they sat beside us they

felt our much warmer bodies

heated I can say

A daughter with her mother

both sat by my side

i warmed them felt their shivering

so cold but they denied

everything they left soon

and tragic I found the old lady

died the next day

staring at the moon

laid out in her heavenly bed

wrapped in blankets she

Would have her final send off

i was with her so sadly

The  next day was invited to the wake

and we sent her off to Heaven

lets her soul fly free

the Andes is a cold affair

a rocky  mountainous scene

the village about 40 homes

having lost her dud demean

the atmosphere around a bouts

a sadness everywhere

to feel her close

and shivering

sharing the despair

clad in her best clobber

missing her was I

already having tried to warm her up

i did so try

she held me her weak hands did shake

close to me she was

she kissed me when she left

I think that’s because

i wanted her to sit inside

not leave  them in the back

frost and snow

no place to go

looking to the sky so black

No stars  nothing did twinkle

I watched her to her door

bent almost to double

her spirit lost for sure