What Crosses My Mind

  • Lost In Love Together

    We would walk togetherMaybe holding hands,Or just side by sideIn our own thoughts,We would share together.Sometimes there is an envyWhen a couple strolls byEnjoying a sunsetWalking together.A certain sadnessComes with age whenWe measure out the years,Alone or together.I wonder about her,If she has a walkingPartner to share her lifeTo feel an autumn together.I guess I’ll…

  • Three Years Later

    I still want to figure it out even when it doesn’t matter, I think about those days, all the different ways we did live our lives, we did hide our sorrows. I think about the time now, the what ifs the why nots the constant barrage of never knowing how. We live a certain way…

  • So, It’s Today

    So it’s three years ago, so it’s today, so every moment of my day, spent trying to find a way, to let go, to move forward to forget about anniversaries, at least the ones, I want nothing to do with anymore. Yet there are strings, parts of my life I can never forget, nor do…

  • Haunting Dissolve

    It began with those … an icy depth of years; not knowing wondering each day. The wall had been erected and suddenly the last brick placed with careful reflexive muse. The door seemed not enough. How to make a statement with no recourse; a fight wouldn’t happen too much knowing judgment. Put clothes on and…

  • The Anger Inside

    When do we how Can we maneuver a set of stairs splattered wood we used to play with the creaks the middle of the night Self-made horror stories. We used to play with pain One day it became anger ©️Thom Amundsen 8/2020

  • The Story of Mak (or Man’s Best Friend)

    The year 2020 started off with a bang for me. I was suddenly about to be found swirling in a myriad of life choices, decisions, adjustments and COVID 19. To begin the year, my marriage of 30 years had fallen apart, and I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and take responsibility…

  • The Edge of Reason

    What stake have we in righteous turbulence, perhaps is reason to submit, suggest, offer and consider, compassion might allow a progressive response yet allowance of circumstance, that told responsibility a valuable lesson.   In night air came a perpetual fire taunted by winds, a breeze so is a prevalent sky, leading our lives into the…

  • Watching Their World Begin

    Sweet elegance is the certain beauty of love two soul who find their journey will be one   So many possibilities, such wandering imagery yet with time in eloquence Rose and Nick   will find a world to gather in such is a storm as is the burden of the human condition alone.   The…

  • Two Would Pass Together

    (dedicated to the goodness of time, a friend and his family) When in a moment we might reflect upon the reason, we could together share a memory, the fleeting laughter, we would do this together, wouldn’t we create a scene, a wonderful attribute, of the years, oh the many years, the travels we knew without…

  • A Diamond

    When thoughts of rocks, come to play, the mind is alluring, easily left to sway the doubts, the indecisions, the valued circumstance, of shared precisions.   The cut of a diamond, meant to draw blood, perhaps never seen, never heard, yet known by the fractured elements of delight in an eye, the beholder, the judgment,…