What Crosses My Mind

  • We Are Here, Again

    When I was a child, I remember well, the gathering of family, all indeed similar. In the early morning anticipation, a spell of wonder, love, then all arrived from afar. Conversations were readily heard inside the walls of a gathering of similar soul. The children played a sweet naive pride, allowed adults to know love,…

  • Proud These Tears

    There was that moment, when standing, holding court together, we merged our simple lives, with smiles, I’ve watched you grow, a calculated beautiful person, we all knew you were from day one, when I held you in my hands, 6:38 PM, my life changed that day, and yet I still managed to be human, on far…

  • I Remember Songs

    Riding in my car crossing freeways letting the music drive me home, I could sing out loud, imagining you with me, on the road together. I might glance your way, see you staring out the window, a smile that seemed so content, your hands resting upon levi jeans, tapping your fingers to a little Dylan.…

  • Eighteen

    A finished product on paper wanting immediate recognition in reality asking only for keys to sanity wonders abound ahead new quests. Each moment of passage now today seems clouded when yesterday, the avenues were clear, I could find you around every corner without stumbling forward into a pedestrian maze. That symbolism speaks to tomorrow suddenly…

  • Where Now Is

    Cross the street with marble concrete built to form everyday without a thought this seems the norm. Look about the avenue and see the eyes that meet traffic likens by autos, bicycles, walkers compete ~ A child nearby cradled in the nurtured hands of mom recalls how fast the cars go by, from whence they…