Take what you gave
What they so freely took
Back
Un-name it
Re-name it
Yours again now
To own
To celebrate
To sing and dance about
To hold
Now This instead of That
To release
As You Wish
And never for takers to taste
In Stead
Informed Consent: We make our choices, don’t we?
Steel Me
Wherever is my friend
Magnolia tree in her front yard
Alternating flecks of shade ‘n sun
Upon my weakened shoulders
As I walk under it and set a spell
A good cry comes
A goodbye cry, finally
To all the disease now felled
Hologram
Mock human
Mocking human sorrow
Under a guise
A disguise
Of shared humanity
Which, were you to dig deep
You would dig
Had you any true depth at all
Pulsar Day
What if I befriended time
Then took its outstretched hand
Separation was no more
Despite life’s shifting sand
Daytime, nighttime were as one
Without the fear of loss
Silver seconds, yearnless years
And age no bridge to cross
I beckon thee to join with me
In unrelenting drive
To put away some thought of death
To embrace what’s alive
Each minute is a golden hour
Each breath a pulsar day
When time gives us its outstretched hand
We must not look away
Less West
You stay out there
Laughing, likely
Mocking me
But On fire
Coughing heavily
I’ll stay back here
Broken, maybe
But Afire
Picking peaches
That God gave me
Auscultation: A Haiku
All I hear’s the breeze
The underdog sliding home
And a ripsaw heart
Original Inspiration: “As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’ ” (Romans 10:15)
You Can Survive
August alone again, prove me wrong
Dreams turned to nightmares
Out of the woods now, but strictly ill-willed attackers want me
Or — what I can give them
Still, every day, I show up
Smiling
Asking for more
Only arms-length adorers greet me
A bridge they must cross
All I am is a testimony
You can survive
Chaos
Abandonment
Doormatism
Abuse
Abandonment
Abandonment
Abandonment
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