I purchase peace by what I give away each day deciding to be less unburdened so whatever the day the invitation comes soft or sudden I stand ready to welcome the life ahead
Tag: poetry
Stone
This beautiful stone dances on my finger though we are long past each other I turn and let it catch the light to remember what it was to hope for a future together
Spring
These green friends have had just enough light and air a trickle of water has kept them alive but not thriving what we all need now to spring forward is a good soul drenching
Tease
I see the way you tease your small nick draws just a drop of blood but I must tend and mend it with my soft tongue
Crush-Worthy
Entangled in every distraction it took you a good long time to notice how delicious I smell when we stand close how smoothly I move as I walk away how your heart adds beats when you hear my words thank goodness you have come now to your senses and realize at last I am, indeed crush-worthy
Weary
You are weary Let me assure you: all the care you have offered the tenderness freely given to friend and stranger returns to lift you now
Strife
You can ask as often as you like: I still have no drama to offer no tension or strife to feed you You must find someone else to exhaust with your intrigues I have nothing to bleed for you today
Melon
Today I saw a man embrace a prize-winning melon He was so proud of what his love had wrought Every day he watered shaded, sheltered as he marveled at its girth and the mottled emerald skin How lucky to love like that a heart full of the sweet and ephemeral always here, now
Weightless
I can go a whole day one of a kind object of curiosity beside myself participant, witness floating, weightless
Words
What can I say to you about you without wounding? My every word a weight by which you judge yourself success or failure I cannot bring myself to injure you with what I think is true Facing such profound fragility and infantile defense it is only cruelty to convey How far short you fell from what my small heart needed all along
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