Nicotine Breeze

Cappuccino.
sweet cup of cream coffee
reaching for my lips
shattered to pieces
at my feet in bits.
Unintended break.
Brown cinnamon,
staining uncommon
shapes and shadows
on lime-green walls
and once happy white floors.
Won’t you sweep the blood pouring
while I salvage broken china
and weep to absent gods?
Never mind,
the cash register is calling.
Cappuccino –
now cold and staining my feet
dance on my lips not meant to be.

Mind Over Matters (of the heart)

Where does love go?

Is it stored in a box and put away

to be opened at another later date?

Or is it buried in a deeply dug hole

like a mistaken burial of a live soul?

Is it left behind in a heaven turned to hell

or is it carried on your back in a parcel

hidden from the world?

Where does love go?

Is it burned, is it damaged,

or is it simply given to someone else?

Forty years of loving

and the only thing I know

is that love is a wandering, hungry child

never to be held onto for too long.

Seven Blessings

Live differently

Love innocently

Learn passionately

Lose honorably

Look carefully

Leap courageously

Laugh daily

Waiting for my Friend

My friend is tired

I know it by the shade of her eyes

The smile that she hides

The stories she subsides.

My friend is lonely

I know it by the depth of her thoughts

The tears that she smiles

The secrets she won’t confide.

My friend is afraid

I know it by the weight in her walk

The silence when she talks

The distance in her eyes.

My friend has forgotten me

I know it.

The smile

The stories

The tears

The secrets

The silence

The distance.

But I wait, as I promised

My friend.

Brrrr!

TODAY
Cold with a little snow
High: 41F/5C

Winter came right after spring, confusing me, losing me, keeping me wondering how it came to be without my noticig that the temperature had changed and then it rained. Day after day, mercury falling to freezing. Will it thaw eventually or will it take an eternity and be found by scientists in the future maybe?….a buried discovery of frozen love denied.