What Crosses My Mind

  • Perilous Lives

    Lives are seeking shelter in the icy waters of our nation. Realizing that enough is the result of battle scars. We walk in town and wonder every light comes our way. We worry that someone we know is suddenly the victim. Waiting for some good news peril in our eyes seems real. If government cared…

  • I Feel Fear

    I saw it, reviewed it and I fell apart, the symbols were evident and stark. All day I wondered how I’d react, came home, turned on the news and immediately felt at fault, felt like I was glorifying her death, because of the horrific Hollywood replay. Truth is she was only trying to live her…

  • Words to Jacob

    I’ve waited for this day, with no eager anticipation, I remember the way, I first discovered you, realized the news would be all about you, I wondered what it would be like to lose someone, to not have any idea, and only be left with pain, the loss that seemed forever in a day, in…

  • Wanting Peace – Chronology of Hope

    I When I was a child I wondered about Vietnam, couldn’t wait to see the names scroll by the evening news, Walter Conkrite’s lovely sigh would ring in my mind until my later bedtime. ~ I saw the protestors, I lived by their side, I was the kid the one with dreams and hope, everyone…

  • Trying to Focus on Home

    There’s this thing happening, on the streets of my neighborhood, there isn’t a name really, just a lot of confusion. ~ Oh some like to call it inalienable rights, others refer to the strength of the NRA. ~ Whatever the cool language of the day, what matters more are the continued loss of life. ~…

  • Killing Our Selves

    Wake up to another morning in sunlight brilliance look about a world of passion, beauty, resilience. ~ The news, what we read; our beautiful children too, can we not forget the one hundred and thirty two, ~ kids, smiling faces with pure innocence abound, they knew childlike pain, seeing upheaval all around, ~ their villages, their…

  • Capital Punishment

    Wait … I’m not ready he’s not ready she’s not ready not worthy not right not exactly operating on all cylinders When we decide upon the finality of death, are we I mean is it our goal would we, could we, do we really want to have that burden in our mind? Every day, we…