It’s been a season.Summer to fall.Shoulds all around her,Then dropping them all.The cacophony of dissonance,Mysterious and distressing.Breaking down, breaking open,Her values, it’s testing.The tourists all gatheredTo watch the waves crash.Our world lit up in flames,Breath choked on the ash.The storms blew in angry,Meteors scorched the sky.Light eclipsed by darkness,As the days and weeks rolled by.The... Continue Reading →
Searching and open,And I found hard.A wall. Doors were closing.With no regard.Dissonance loud.Screaming in my ears.Can’t look it head onThrough all my fears.My intuition. My knowing.Thought I’d welcomed open armed.But I must have blocked it,Foreboding harm.Pushed it down so deep inside,From even a seeking mind to hide.I only sensed a specter there…And, it vanished, as... Continue Reading →
Some days, there, I see it.You had to look away. You never understood my fire.You had to look away. When I didn’t do just right.When, in pain, I had to fight.You had to look away. And, when you looked,When our eyes met,I saw the fear and shame.I mustered lonely courage,So as not to live in... Continue Reading →
Desert hills rising,Like beacons.Wide open spaces.Nowhere to hide.Lizards sunning scaly skin,Like mine after all these years…Skitter away,With a sudden start.The fall of my feet,Upsetting the balance. With each arid breeze,The landscape is forever changed.The grains of sand,Displaced.The Princess and the Pea.You feel it…Before you know it…But it is happ’ning all the while.What is leftThrives in... Continue Reading →
Soliloquy on Imperfectionism 