Category Love

Remember

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Though you feel your soul is sundered, Remember and you’ll never walk alone. Though you fear to stumble in darkness, Remember the stars have always shown. Though you seek to find light at the end, Remember love’s light; family, friends. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment […]

Able in Time

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I am a member of my familywho moved away, a generationremoved. Still, it places me atso far away from stories heardand told around kitchen tablesat picnics on misquitoed patios.I’ll not smell citronella or knowthe ozone fizzing of bug zapper Mine another family, not mine,2,000 miles from blood […]

Many Angles of Creation

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I lie here warm, half asleeppondering life, the universeand everything, waiting forhypnogogic enlightenment,Yet, I hear the control towerprojecting instructions andimpressions, images into mypsyche again and again. Tosee many angles of creation. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World […]

To Myself

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Could it be, I most easily tell you the truth, when I lie to you? Not maliciously, but lies asthe storyteller knows them. Using this method to dig more deeply into the truth of all that is. Is this simply the way I tell the truth to […]

Another Dance

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Hear these steps of all soldiers dancing a waltz, on the evening before they are deployed. War awaits them, with certainty and horror; hiding the fear of death. Keeping their fear ever to mind. Until they almost wish for, hope for, pray for it to prey upon […]

It Doesn’t Matter

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ If I watch you closely or surreptitiously, from the corner of my eye, will I finally see you? Might I notice your tell or mark, which I think gives the game away, at last. Will I merely delude myself by accepting your bluff as the ultimate truth. […]

Another Day

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When the time has gone and come, we may have missed it either way. Factor all the changes, do the sums. It will all go and come another day. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, […]

Polite Society

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ We could always sit in different places. Individuals, though together we remained. Observing all the pleasantries and graces, while from physical contact we abstained. Not lack of love, hope or frowning faces. Simply time and circumstances pertained. We pull together, harnessed in our traces. Choice gone; physical […]

Cover Your Ears

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Much like grabbing onto an electric fence; her arms locked, rigid, and she can’t let go. Constricted, restricted, hands become fists. What to punch? Who to punch? Maybe her, She cannot punch her child. Though after the fifth shrieking alarm heard tonight, she must rush out, away, […]

Adlib at Its Finest

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Have you ever seen a glorious sunset? Marveled at the chromatic hues of each dawn? Quickly snatched these magics, though there’s truly no way to hang on. Even if you can vividly imagine them, they’re already gone. Have no fear. They will come again on future days, […]