sBoundaries
won't learn from you
won't eat your food
won't buy your goods
won't drink your booze.
leave me be
won't ingest your creed
won't congest my arteries
with the air you breathe.
boundaries
blazing walls of fire
don't permit your ascendance
cut off with barbed wire
won't learn from you
won't eat your food
won't buy your goods
won't drink your booze.
leave me be
won't ingest your creed
won't congest my arteries
with the air you breathe.
boundaries
blazing walls of fire
don't permit your ascendance
cut off with barbed wire
Zoom
put down her sewing listened fully felt her heart through the screen paying attention to me sensed fears, heard my need to confess how I'm so tired of hating our people of our capacity for cruelty with such innocence, such "nice" people, maintain the Caste; let me go under for a while, leave behind consciousness fall asleep to the lullaby rock a bye of good sincere intentions; but her loving transcended all that inner unrest; my sister, once so rejected now here she hears leans in, doesn't correct or chastise or try to fix just a gift of loving eyes that I will get to see the rest of my life whether lonely or plagued, whenever big feelings, insanity, come my way. |
Lord, Give me a Spine!
when I saw Ashley yesterday I knew nothing was okay raggedy cough tiny shuffle-steps black mini skin-tight dress fuzzy black slippers opaque wall in eyes... coming down from that house behind mine where she goes to smoke and now at five thirty five spinning-round red lights arrive in rhythmic pulse throb on patterned glass installed to thwart prying eyes I ask myself why didn't I interrupt her stupor shuffle with a hug, saturate her with red love, speak to her insides? LORD! Give me a spine to speak love and truth into moments as guided by you. how's the world going to change if I don't love and hate, stay awake! |
Dream
way up over icy wavy water standing in a something that felt almost not there and you behind me out of sight but I said, "look out over the bridge to the star blue night" conscious of being so high and looking up graced with courage reverent in presence of such majesty way above sea below where birds splashed - or were they people don't know I shifted my feet to remember I was standing on something and it was surprisingly nothing but also assured me "you are held" (with white suspenders, too) and I relaxed and beheld a skier to the right digging edges into ice. |