What Crosses My Mind

  • Keeping Up

    I want to be angry about my pain but then I look at your daily struggle. I seek some validation in my name, I realize you cannot be my ally. When yesterday I recognize how just, almost, cannot be thought of together while time delivers health to you in jest. A storm exists swells beyond, but…

  • Cry Only For Me

                  ~ Cool morning frost play upon car windows knowing what lies ahead, wanting something else that might suit her mood. Always a glance yet sometimes only the damp wind that blows across naked skin; trudges unwilling toward another circumstance. When chance sweet spiritual grace in peace drawn love embrace…

  • When Hope takes Holiday

    The park seemed so attainable, safe, reachable, nothing sharp, or piercing, only the equipment that satisfied my eyes, always, morning through night, hours of fun she said, and insisted, and prayed that I might, then understand. ~ Before the storms arrived, I knew my ground, wished for fairy tale dreams, while searching the skies as…

  • What is Your Pain?

    Everyone wonders aloud when alone what flavor of fear will it be today? How soon will the silent shadow I’ve known come knocking, suggesting, try it my way. ~ How does your own street look this evening a stroll of coifed gardens so delightful, pleasing to the eye, soft, alive, soothing while outside our neighbor…

  • A National Opportunity

                    *** Shhh … Can you hear it? Opportunity … Yet, yes the wonder. How did we get here; Where might we possibly go! ~ Did you know some school yards will suppress a gathering of three or more. So in other words, leaving individuals on their own…

  • Peace Alone

    When I walk outside today I will see blue skies perhaps a touch of gray, possible thunderstorms. I won’t see blood and carnage, I will not experience the loss of limb my world ‘today’ does not contain a cease fire to prevent ripping human lives apart both physically and mentally. When I walk outside today,…

  • When Do We Stop to Breathe

    The rain is steady today I can see a long arc in the sky we will receive a thrashing of wind a searing breeze chills our skin causing an inherent need to seek shelter, to protect ourselves from the weather. When do we stop finding solace seeking shelter What is the compelling drive that keeps…

  • Using Twilight

    Here I am wondering how I might move from one spot to another. I have watched the night sky grow letting time coast past my window. When our mind reacts to the still hour we would welcome an answer mild response suggests only smaller needs easily forgotten again. I would like to understand the confusion…

  • Streams In the Cities

    We walk talk a lot one time our world’s collided like a fork in the river suddenly our mood changed the current came to life playing the rocks like a treacherous waterfall we were falling too trying to grasp the moment catch an inlet and pool up our thoughts. Silent interactions the day became sad…

  • 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…