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No need to witness meI know I am hereSolid,Standing against oddsAnd bad luck,Falls, and scars, and wounds:Certain of my imperfection. Defiant as a means of survivalBecause there wasn’t anything leftTo do.What do trees think when they fall?What does the forest think? My stance is speckless,Tiny speck of a much biggerSpectacle.Sometimes all earth and sky,With littleContinue reading “Solid”

Sometimes thinking a thoughtIs like catching a fishWith your bare hands blind.Everything sparkly and rippling,And just plunging in to pullSomething quite wigglyOut of the flow and stream.Bears do it all the timeWith their mouths,Probably without even thinking.

I refuse to come into this worldJust to be destroyed.The odds seemed always against meMaybe more than mostNot as much as othersBut certainly a long listOf things that should have killed me Doesn’t matter the list of itemsEveryone has their burdensAnd copes or doesn’tSome have easier breaking points,But broken isn’t the same as done. It’sContinue reading “Life or Death”

Turquoise in the dry desertLooks like a clod of dirt.Unless you break intoA seam of it,Then it is brilliantblue and aliveSquinting at the sunFor the first time in ever.The things we walk among,Unseen, treasures andMiracles millennia in the making,Underground,Or slowly formingFrom this moment’s thin air. How do we maintain that awareness?That the ground we walkContinue reading “Turquoise”

Trying to find the right wayWhen there is no trail to follow,It’s best to still yourself.Talk to your gut.Look for distant landmarks.Make one if there are none. A waypoint can be a prayerAs well as a direction.It can also be pointless,Or an obstacle, if you let it. When marking your trail,Be sure you knowIf you’reContinue reading

Bless the sower of seedsOf mindful and good intentions Bless the mystery thatAwakens the seed,To root and sprout. Bless the urge to stretchAnd struggle, searchingLight and depth. Bless the strength inGrowing and thriving,Drinking rain deep in stormsAnd flexing with the wind. Bless the flow of seasonsAnd weather, theHardening off,The memory of rootsAnd returning,Of colors andContinue reading “A Blessing”

I’ve done what I needed to do to leave much of my past behind me.  I had to in order to survive this long. Otherwise, you keep letting something injure you long after the cause of the trauma is gone and you’ve survived. There’s all kinds of things you can do to leave it behindContinue reading “Past, present and future”

Imagine if you had every opportunity,Every support for whatever you everwanted to Become.Or to know, learn, or do.Let yourself dream of it.Close your eyes, relax into it and feelhow that would feel.How healing. Imagine if we allhad a chanceto be our best,Not our most, butwhat if it were all about qualityand not quantity,About connectionrather thanContinue reading “If things will be different”

I can’t make somebody have the wordsFor what they can’t even see. I can’t make somebody hearWhat they’re working hard to ignore. I cannot long for the same feelingthat they fear. I’ve never been one to chase someone running away. I will run to someone,Or meet halfway. So if you want to run,Just know, thatContinue reading

History dies in numbers every day.People leave with a thousand storiesThat no one else knows.Great loves, adventures, tearful moments,Hearty laughs,Things whispered to oneself,And things announced from rooftops,Promises and mistakes,Memories of peopleThat no one carries any longer.All that fascination, curiosity, andThriving, passing out of reach. When trees lose their leaves,They get brightly colored before they fall.TheyContinue reading “history dies in numbers”