Art
Artists are mediumsThat carry the spirit of the ageFrom light to darkMoving through the tearsLike the hand of God If photography is deathLife is artBoundless by realityPaint what is really thereIn perpetuity.
Rock
The rock can hold you down But keeps you steady A firm foundation With earthly goals And nothing new While risk is rare You find your place Is close at hand With life within reach. The rock can hold you down But never floats away A place to count on With no secrets While life…
Teachers
Like Ann Sullivan with Helen KellerYou took a frustratedAngryDemandingObstinateTorturedWreck of a childAnd taught her to bePatient and kind. Like Henry Higgins with Eliza DoolittleYou took a courseVulgarUnkemptDisheveledBawdyWretch of an urchinAnd taught her to beGraceful enough to be wined and dined. Like Peter Pan with Wendy DarlingYou created a motherlyGentleStorytellerAdventurerAnd taught herTo dance and sing and…
And yet we try
We believe we can control And change the way we feel Delay it to another hour Adapt it to another need. Loose it for another day Find it just before the meeting’s meal. But our feelings won’t obey our mind Or follow in our planned design They carry us beyond our dreams And invade our…
Hospice
You know you have days Or weeks Or months Left But there’s still a heart beating A brain working And you are still moving. But you feel dead inside. So its a relief When he smothers you with a pillow. But it’s still over. And sad.
Cuts
No one seesAll of meLike you do And when you sayI’m not enoughIt cuts through Me like a saberTaking part of meBut you’re my father
Bleeding
Like a butcher,you carefully carved my heartOut of my lifeAnd left it bleeding Her lipstick and pillsBy your bedHer blood on your sheetsMine pounds in my headAnd you left me bleeding My call for helpAnd you were engagedMy tire flatI didn’t callBecause I knew you’d failAnd leave me bleeding I know you’ll trySomeday againAnd I…
Fractured
I am notpart-timehalf-heartedfragmentedabridged. I amall inimmersedunstoppable. Take all of meOr let me go.