Inch by inch ground is covered. Toe by toe the foot grows. How many steps until finished? Until the puzzle is complete? Until the picture is captured? Until peace is the victory won?
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I miss my mom.
I miss my mother so much, I often don’t think about her.
I miss my mom so much, it takes stumbling across an old picture for me to
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it is hard to move, to shift, to breathe new air, when a plan has not been carefully charted.
going with the wind sounds fun but when the gusts pick up and threaten
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sitting still and just being have never been easy,
responsibilities heaped on top of responsibility,
no end to the demand i have been expected to keep up with.
there is a chair, but
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I often search my mind for memories of you,
Sometimes I find them easily, a flower bud at the first of Spring,
Other times the search is more difficult, - a green leaf
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there is more to see and come to know. the darkness cannot exist in your light. so shine. release the fire within. the flickering does not mean an end is near. it signifies
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Morning seems to come quicker
than night likes to stay
The stars decide they need sleep too
And hide behind the clouds while the sun yawns
Sending the birds of the air into
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Your patience with me
Smooth, flows over every hard “no”
Dismantles every “please stop”
Sees the fear behind those words
For hugs never did me any harm
Kisses on the shoulder, arm or
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i cannot seem to balance
i find myself swaying right to left
left to right, center does not seem to exist.
i am floating. in and out of focus.
how did i get
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there is no disguise,
no camouflage needed
eyes can see but they do not perceive.
it is a smile,
placed on the face of a body
so exhausted by pleasing
it seems genuine.
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no plans were made. no dates were set. no new conversations were had. no times
were set. no preparations were made. nothing was set in stone. yet you came.
you are coming. life
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this rope is breaking
i can feel it
still i hold on
to a rope weathered
by worry and doubt by fear and uncertainty
for they are the only things that frequent me
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i want to know home, climb its staircase and open its cabinets, wash its windows
and open its blinds, unlock its safety and close off abandon
i wonder, do the floorboards creek in
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trees sway in no breeze
no gust or sweet push
where has wind gone
out of a body
once so full
it has found
no home from
whence to blow
yet these trees
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