This moment is all that we have, I don’t want to be broken for you. This love is as good as it gets; there’s no other who’s seen me so cruel. This life can pull at my sanity; I think we all can agree that it’s true. Without a place to anchor my feet, the…
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My cat is irritated and I am sneezing. He’s giving me the side-eye wondering when the disruption to nap by explosions from mouth will cease. I wonder too. I feel them well up within, relief and irritation, eyes clamping shut to retain them, chest pushing hard to remove them, harder than most, as chests like…
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You are the new day. I will love you more than me and more than yesterday. If you can but prove to me, you are the new day.
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The shadow proves the sunlight and measures the soulFleeting light paints pictures reflections only echoPermanently unstable the shadow dancesForever linked to source it can only respondWispy and translucentDependent and powerlessAbsent of light we remember that nothing is firmFoundations moveDreams fadeLight turns to darkAnd yet the shadow is aliveIt casts the past and paints the futureTelling…
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What if there is no bottom, and all we fear to believe is true Will we stop the fall and walk away, or dive head first and feel the race The rushing wind and pounding chest with lightning thoughts and those regrets Loss that drives with siren calls ceaselessly slashing until we fall Death by thousand cuts…
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It’s been 5 months today. 5 months since you went away on that day when distance and desire was paid by pain. It’s been 5 months of thinking you everyday – some days all day – some days grace. 5 months of emotions held in check as seeping memories like morning mist take breath and…
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I usually decorate the pine tree in the front yard like a candy cane, but this time I wanted to do something more meaningful. I thought an eight foot star of David sixty feet in the air would be sweet. Happy Birthday my King.
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Time is an amazing thing. I remember taking this picture almost 2 years ago walking the shores of the James River trying to make sense of the events of the previous months. None could be found as life does not reveal secrets because I insist on knowing. Where we find ourselves is of…
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