My friend told me that after a forest fire,
Blueberries are the first growth you’ll see return.
What a model of resilience and perseverance!
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My friend told me that after a forest fire,
Blueberries are the first growth you’ll see return.
What a model of resilience and perseverance!
If you can see me
If you can see parts of me that I cannot
Tell me so
Describe them to me
…
Are there good things that make me worthwhile?
Do I have kindness? Empathy?
Do I bring others comfort in times of strife?
Frozen winter path:
This foolish heart beats slowly
To unknown currents
Damp winter drizzle:
This numb heart deaf-blind to the
Late night mysteries
I saw something on a TV show today
That sparked something in me
I felt like I recognized an old friend
That I’ve recently been trying to avoid
And I don’t mean that I’ve seen this show before
…
Distant fog creeping
Longing for the forever
Unattainable
Midnight above us
Asking my lover once more:
Tell me who I am
My elusive self
No matter how hard I search
Still a mystery
Can they see in me
I wonder, my truest self
In ways I cannot
To live peacefully
I must not be throwing stones
In this house of bone
Coughs from my sickbed
I look around, read my past
And still find such joy
A lifetime of tiny burials
For lost keys to a damaged mind
And an overpowering heart
Smothered and destroyed
Or simply denied their conception
Lacking ceremony
Are resurrecting now
Zombies or ghosts
Under a new moon
Slowly clawing their way up
From soil once fallow
Now richly seeded with my fears
But fertilized by my need
These tiny deaths all
Rise from their graves today
To haunt me or save me
I can’t tell the difference
December 19 2024 – January 2, 2025