What right to realize, to move…to dance
To breathe, to be, then receive
The destruction, after all, was vast
Yet
The beautiful opportunity, now, at hand
To awaken, to erupt, then flow
What wrong to commit, to not move…to not dance
Then Flow
Tag Archives: Breathe
Seedling, Know
“I love you with every bit of my heart,” and I went on and on
Some pleading to an audience of none
“You would’ve always been the only man for me. You renewed my hope and changed my life. I was so excited about us. We were going to love and take care of each other for the rest of our lives — yes? I was working hard to become a better version of myself….”
Then some seedling
Sown, thankfully
Sprung from beneath the freeze
Reminded me
In reality
Was and were and what would’ve been
Were as empty husks
A thorny nowhere, to which you dropped me
Fields of memories from some cliff you chose
This, my grain, my daily bread
Seedling, know, you saved the hour
Today I’ll reap none pain-filled breath
Goodness Ocean
I take my leave from those who gaze, idly
Or avert their eyes, altogether
Onward, Ho! To teach!
To share air — and indeed, to breathe!
For I can only learn and grow
Alongside those who will take their turn
Do their worst, and make such noise
To right the wrongs with waves of change
As the Goodness Ocean must
As I Stand Today
Ode to the she-stranger, whom I never met
Yesterday, upon my knees
“Respiras,” my aura begged her
Then quietly and years ago, she-stranger did oblige
As if she wore my atoms, said for only me to hear
“You lucky, lucky girl.”
Original Thought Credit: Marty McConnell’s “FRIDA KAHLO TO MARTY McCONNELL”
Aura Again
Swim away back
Into the deep, deep color of you
Wear your aura again
Be breathing
Envisioning
Let loose the back muscles that constrain you
Go deeper to come higher
Think cinematographically all along
Your spirit animal and apex instinct
Cameras rolling, claim it
Neverlove
Proof I wasn’t broken when we met
I loved unguarded
Neither life vest nor safety net entered into the equation of me plus you
I just trusted my breath and followed the man who’d stolen it from me
I trusted
Not knowing you couldn’t
Never expecting you’d studied me, unwilling instead to blindly follow wherever your heart might take you
I was a calculated move for you
Where did that get you but gone
And I can no longer breathe
Impress Me: A Haiku
Withdraw me never
Rubies I am to myself
Sail me to always
Original Thought Credit:
Proverbs 31:10-31
Questions from the Kitchen
Why then, the pool of flesh on the floor?
Why then, the hearkening back
Again and again and again?
Linoleum and helplessness
And bargaining
The feel of it all
On my knees
My shoulders, still
A Mother’s love
It’s why I breathe, still
I answer
Absolutely as a mountain
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