Tag Archives: love
Puzzle Pieces
Where will I need to go If I do not find you Who will I become If you do not find me Will I be able to hear you If I never learn to listen I know you, no matter where I will still, always love you I will explore so deep within My own […]
Anyway
Still he says and still he says He is not the one Not the one they want Not the one they need In one place He believes this Other places, he knows Knows he’s lying If only to himself When she says and when she says You cannot mean me I’m nothing special But, yes […]
Simple Gifts
When simple tasks in life become challenges Putting on a pair of socks, getting out of a car Please don’t worry or into depression plunge Acknowledge that in life, this is where you are It might result from age, chronic pain, illness Doesn’t speak of who you are, just limitations Choose always to try to […]
A New Way
Talk to me; foretell my future Mired ‘neath murky clouds Shades of black and gray No more bright sun Limns the shadow What portends our pretense? Is it more Than happenstance? Will we ever Change the steps Of our fell dance? While peacocks preen Clean each feather Display their plumage For each other In […]
Nap Time
When we think about life, our future, we want to succeed To be popular, powerful, rich, comely, to live a life of ease Some live solely for an afterlife, or in daily fear of disease How many of us ever choose to contemplate our legacies You know all the phrases; you read them in the […]
Whether Near or Far
We all know that our families can be difficult, complex Especially those with which we’re related, share blood Where buttons pushed often yield to answers by reflex Usually without any thought about what might be good Even our families of choice aren’t always an easy task Some people grow, change faster, others get left behind […]
Life Lessons
A fireplace in a solid home, wooden mantle and surround Fluting, details in the wood and built-in shelves either side Mementoes from this life, ancestors, previous generations History contained memories, feeling felt within sentiment Meanings, we understand, more important than money Have more significance than any goods real or imagined Yet, one day these memories […]
Precious Cargo
We never dreamed their intelligence could increase so dramatically, so rapidly. Now, I’m frightened and cold, deep underground, where I hide my boys. Still babies, really. Claude, thirteen months, Alex, just past twenty-three months, I swear. If only Stephen had not been killed, we could have devised a plan. The kinetic strikes destroyed Detroit’s Phillips […]
You Can Say That Again
You Can Say That Again (cliché at play) Adam’s off ox is out of the box His changed bell is rung fonder The best salt was not made early But, end of the day, sun shines The walls have their work order Only the late hats without insult Like taking a cool kid by […]
Red Shifted
Watching the news last night Noticed something, caused a fright Stories full of depraved, depressing sights Ads for new medicines, so I will not die tonight Told who died, was shot, or another dastardly deed Told I can’t breathe, my ticker’s bad, but they have what I need A plane’s gone missing, a another new […]
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