You opened up the sky to me. Unfettered hopes abounding free to breathe and travel in a dream I long since thought you’d not redeem. Not you, nor he, nor anyone could call to life or make undone the girl within who’d gone away from reverie by night and day; who’d watch and wait and…Read more Know Not How
Poetry
A Burden (Part Yours, Part Mine)
Heavy weighs your weary heart. But I'll be here to bear some part. 'Cause you've held mine with tenderness. You told me once, "Remember this…" You told me, "You'll not be alone, from now until you're old and grown, and grown so old the world's gone by. I'll love you now 'til seas go dry."…Read more A Burden (Part Yours, Part Mine)
The Reaping
Unwarranted malice, fool pride, disrespect mask an ignorant boy in his choice to deflect some old anger, some hurt, telling her to get out. Keep your cool to conceal what it’s really about. Each hateful word adds a brick to the wall of the prison you build to protect from a fall. Smug spite chokes…Read more The Reaping
Butterfly Kisses
Down I lay my weary heart. I pray you not to let it break. Should I discern to take it back, I’ll keep you not for keeping’s sake. (Sleeping and weeping and keeping so still I heard them flutter ‘cross the sill.) Assured in ways you look at me, we’d talk of art and not…Read more Butterfly Kisses
The Tightrope
Do you have the courage to walk on the tightrope? To whistle and sing? Even dance? It may swing. It might shake, it will bend. On the tightrope you mend the fear that kept guard on the ground down below, that caged you from walking this rope long ago. As the wind whistles past, with…Read more The Tightrope
