reflection with affection

Life's song can rise and fall in tone

Encode the call we each alone

can hear and dance with

through fear, romance, death,

learning to repair, to own the tune we play

expand and jam throughout each day

maiden to crone

Creating symphony, notated memory

of how we've grown

 

 

 

 

I am certain they will,

your words, that thrill with wisdom

walked over miles, trials, persistence

ever to seek to smile, to learn, to find stillness

for an instant, then travel on

I am certain they will inspire, give assistance to

we who see and desire to come along.

 

 

 

WWSPD

Heated exchange over who said what,

and what was meant,

useless distraction from the real event --

discerning mutual solutions.

Figure out what you value

beyond compromise.

Concede the rest.

 

 

 

Every thing has its stories, its

contexts, its narratives.

Every thing within our universe of

meaning exists, connects, affects.

 

 

 

Never given information needed to

deal with my life,

I’ve figured out on my own, and so often

have been wrong.

And you ?

What have you been taught, believed,

found through experience,

to work for you?

 

 

 

When we feel we are failures

because reality denies our expectations,

we human beings need people

who won’t quit us, give

safe space to grieve,

rethink, emerge

who give sounding board, kind

critique or calm containment,

encouragement, balm and elixir,

surrounding atmosphere of abiding love.

 

 

9/20-26/19