~~~~~ ~~~~~ Where am I going now?Running down a road Ihave never seen. There,somewhere in between,I stand still and wonderwhere I am. Hoping todetermine where I havewandered in my travels.If I could make a mark,or pin some spot on themap. I might dance andsing until someone toldme, will I shut up, or donot give up […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Come to me again when I amlost and lonely, for only youcan find me in the darkness Istumble through. Bring lightto guide me home. Show meonly the darkness is the nightsky, that’s full of bright stars. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ The world bursts forth in profusion,yet we navigate without confusion.Not, at least, dealing with our dailylogistics. Yet, some would say I liewith statistics. For all of our traffic,internet and TV, emotional turmoil,what we feel. Do our days transpirein a whirl, as we travel through ourworld? Crazy it might be, or seem,yet it is […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Brief instants ere eternity. Thisis where creation lies. Seeing inthose interstices the cosmos as awhole, even if through but a tinywindow; it is as vast as creation. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ I wander away, if only in my mind.I can be most anywhere, although Isit right here beside you, I’m alwayswith you. Yet, I can travel to distantstars and galaxies, remember lives Ithink I’m making up at that moment.Consider, as I do and always have,big questions, life, the universe andeverything. What a vast panoply […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Such power has left melong ago, if I ever had it,besides in the strength ofmy arms. Bright, but notso much as to becomeincandescent, illuminatingsome dark corner of ourworld. No masterpieces,at least none I recognize.I fantasize some futurescholar who holds, isthe Rosetta Stone to all Ihave been, all I am, wasand have tried to […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Water drips inexorably, untilthe strongest mountain is laidwaste or a deep channel is carvedthrough, a canyon with a ragingriver. How much time is not the issue.Only enough to prove water’s strength. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Once I went away from home,nothing was the same again.Life and hope, loss and love. Ihave known life and death in mylife, which told me I would knowsadness as well as joy. My dreamswould come. Some would go. Iwould do things I never imaginedand never realize my grandestplans. What would I find when […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sometimes I wonder who I am, who I might become.I wonder at the sound of rain and the feel of snow onmy tongue. Can you tell me you have never wonderedwho might hold you in the middle of the night on arainy summer day? Sitting before a fireplace in rentedrooms, who’s to say […]

~~~~~ ~~~~~ Written while listening to music written in the midst of WWI. How then do I feel so little left of me, in thisbiting cold, folded in covers hardly worthy ofbeing called blankets. Thanks be to all. Will Isurvive this brutal winter? This splinter of aseason stabbed into my flesh, with no reasonto believe […]