I realized something bizarre and profound this morning. As I hugged my son during a leisurely, impromptu break in my now-at-home yoga practice, following his bleary-eyed wandering into my bedroom for a snuggle and some reading before his day of remote learning began, it struck me. COVID saved my family. Now, I recognize COVID for... Continue Reading →
I left you on the day of loveAll those years ago.How we found our way back here,I will never know.Never one for romance,I can’t stand long glances, held hands.More for parties and dancing,Thrill of the front row, seeing bands.You always liked that about me.You’re the first it didn’t scare away.And if we didn’t have our... Continue Reading →
Little boy, run ahead.Don’t let the vastness stop you.I see you charge forth, unafraid,Though I can’t stay atop you.Feet pound carefree,Cartwheels in the sand.Giggling ever giggling,Flip flops in your hand.My heart is heavy when I thinkOf weight on your fairy wings.Yet to inspire the change the world so needsI can’t hide your eyes from such... Continue Reading →
I wake up each day, wearing a thousand days before this.Invisible layers.Visible scars.I dream of starting each day anew.Yet my dreams of days past still haunt me.I yearn to embrace the ghosts.To welcome them kindly. Here, deep sorrow, rest yourself.Cozy into this velveteen chair.Wrap you up in woolen blankets.Feel the fire’s soft glow just there.... Continue Reading →
Arriving in the night. Road weary.The desert hills, a darker shade of black,Seem to part as the lights blaze before us.My breath catches. My eyes go wide.Just left home.All grown up.Dating is so glamorous after high school.Electricity disguised as romance. It all just looked bright to me.Glitter, sparkles, Jack & Cokes for free…Lonely cigarettes, now... Continue Reading →
January.The month where confetti falls flat.The sequins have gone dull.Glimmering lightsLost again in the shadows.Decorations full of memoriesSlumber back from whence they came.So quiet…It echoes…Alone, save for promises soon to be broken.Something to distract the days when only the year feels new.8 a.m.Sunday.Pillows usually win the internal tug of warOn gloomy January mornings.The ones where... Continue Reading →
It is hard not to see,That “We the people” was never meant to be.Yet, how could there be “we”?If there is only you and, separately, me?Who gets to choose who is “we”?He who holds the pen holds the power.Our country’s birth, a point of pride,Also not its finest hour.“We” speaks of unity,Yet a pronoun or... Continue Reading →
I began this journey long ago,Quite unsure, steps unsteady.But now I see through different eyes,A new lens that just wasn’t ready.Eyes that have seen a thousand suns,Beaches, hillsides, works of art.Yet I see now a different view,Than I would have at the start.All alone with my voices,What I’ve told myself is true.Not always kind, I... Continue Reading →
Imagine if a year ago I’d told you,The world as we know it would come to a halt.Incredulity, you’d meet me with.Shut the idea tight in a vault.But we see it now, it can happen.So enmeshed are all of us each.Things I used to take for granted,Now suddenly out of reach.I dreamt last night, I... Continue Reading →
Today, I float.Into the waves,Into the choppy expanse before me.Not much in life is certain,Save for the tides’ pull high and low.Like breath.Like dreamspace.Cup runneth over,Cup half full.Some see fear in the unknown.In the unrelenting crash of waves.Right now, I see beauty.Energy, power, full potential.Dare not ask a wave where it’s going.It will pound you... Continue Reading →
Soliloquy on Imperfectionism 