Denial

I haven't video called him once as he undergoes treatment. When we speak, I ask him how well he is, how well the chemo has worked..and speak about my life. He asks me about work, about how I am.He asks me why I'm coughing if I do it even once. I inform him it's just…

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Choices

I’m torn between what the heart wants and what people do. Though it seems not like the wisest act to give in to those around, I cannot help but mistrust my heart as the days go by. Every choice I’ve ever made by heart has not been mine to make, and has betrayed me in…

Holy Unholy

They preached all answers lay in the lap of Heaven; they warned against any unholy liaison and alliance. The way had been spelled out in scriptures and commands; no deviation would be welcome, no dissent, no demands... Said keep your eyes on the road, and your heart with the divine - follow this one rule,…

September ’22

Many weeks have come and gone before, yet the one coming is brand newthough hopeful and daring I forge ahead, I'm taken over by betrayal's bluesOld leaves must fall for the new to arise, yet this time, the autumn is meOld relationships, old bonds must die, yet it's my soul that will be free Freedom-…

Water to your Earth

And here with the brimming cup I stand, gripped in my praying, outstretched hand - afraid of it being gleaned from my grasp, not of my fingers growing weary of this clasp... The tears refill the steals of the windy air, no fire from the sun can dry up what's here; this river can only…