Shoulda...

In the end
you will say
I wish I had
I wish we had
but it will be
too little
too late.
and too sad.

Concentric illusion...

 

Memorial Day...

 

Probably speaking from experience...

 Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

-Ernest Hemingway 

Don't wait...

 

Food for thought...

a minute
or a day
of life with you
might be just
what's needed
to nourish
a hungry soul.

 

Eye of the beholder...

you are not old
who still sees
beauty:
in a smile
older than yours
or a tree that casts
no shade or
a home with peeling paint
or a lone flower in a weedy bed,
in a threadbare quilt of patches,
a day whose only music
is a birdsong or
someone humming
in the kitchen.

(original post 5-9-2011)

An excellent book...

 

Mother's Day...

 

Real tears...

When was the last time
you cried real tears that hurt all
of your heart and soul?

Not crocodile tears
for something or someone you
didn't know at all.

But the tears that made
you howl and buckled your knees
when your world went black.

Coincidence?...

 

letter to my Self...

(original posting 7-21-2008)

stay with me
as I need you most
more than any other
in the present ever.
allow what is in me
to be
awake and seeing
all I am and have.

Believe...

you have to
sell yourself
to yourself.

 

can you tell me what
it's like so I'll recognize
it when I find it?