You work your whole life intending the best.
Despite best intentions, they escape the nest.
Spreading wings to fly anew,
Everything bright and most things true.
Children are blessings and curses too.
Which are yours?
Whose are you?
Try to blink past the somber.
Look past and only reflect and remember.
The smile, the sun, the rain and the laugh,
of your children’s voice, and your child’s path.
Adrift on Oceania at night, Sailing and surfing to destinations yet known. Have you learned? Have you grown? The...
Digging a ditch with Dave Matthews, looking for a quiet place. Too soon the music is replaced by my...
The canals in my mind turn to channels running deeper still, through underwater chapels and dissolving labels. Swimming beneath...
That old beast seems to have awakened. It’s starting to stir, Machinations glimpsed and gears a whir. Beating walls...
Life has become watered down To the point of distillation. Don’t tell me this is a revelation, Three-day vacations....
Truth denied in hesitation hearts broken at graduation, Time’s gaits unslowed in pace or progress Awoken at midnight, cold...
