Because despite all the complications of life, the most important things were the simplest:
Food, Music, Water, Laughter, (A Joke), Good sleep, Shared moments with those we loved, Cat jokes, senselessness.
A “I haven’t seen you in a long time” hug with a friend sincerely missed. A tear. A victory. A discovery.
The sun came out today
O my goodness, It was Glorious
It shone with a new light
As if it had never shone before
It hit the leaves and they glowed
New angles, new perspectives
Their dewy green tinge a wonderful complement
To the sun’s shining today
Ten o’clock,
When the meandering river called me with its voice
I found a prayer there
A remembrance of past days
It was a beautiful sight-trees, birds, barks
Was the Universe perhaps a much smaller place?
A place we chose, embraced, created, conjured, made up
Maybe we were only to travel the world, to see it. But we were to choose a place, to experience it
Only give me that which I can bear
Do not allow my eyes to be closed;
Make me lie down in green pastures
Make me sip cool waters
Lord if you must bless me
I am hurting
I am bleeding
This is not the way…
It was supposed to end.
All my dreams,
Are ashes
I am sitting
Reminiscing…
All the mistakes I made.
I am hurting
I am bleeding
Lessons on my hands covered red in crimson
Entered a theatre, to do a surgery…
I wasn’t trained.
I am hurting
I am bleeding
The waves
Of want, of despair, of grasping and letting go…
Silly little heart.
When I go to the shed to pray,
Pray I wake up with a different head
Dust my shoes and get my coat,
Walk away into the sunset,
Do a jiggle while I disappear,
Into the next phase of precious wisdom.
A LESSON LEARNED
She always paused and smiled when I asked a difficult question
Not all questions required answers, not immediately,
Or ever.
Life is not a fairy tale,
but,
Yours can be
It’s not a fairy tale, but we can try
Make heaven on earth
You only need you to,
Create peace and harmony and love
You only need you to,
Step away from your own way
You only need you to,
Give up the chains and the zero-grazed code
You only need you to,
Acknowledge the crown that’s on your head, step up to that **** like a *****, shine up your light like you believe it, light up the room like Vegas. Thoughts on the American dream. Thoughts on your ‘American’ dream.
Babe, you are a storm, you are the beginning of rain
You are the smell of soil
Start the talk
Turn up the noise
Switch gears
Are you Frank Ocean?
Live out your passion
Lewis Hamilton
Drive the crowd mad
Michael Jackson
Go gently, like Kobe, Having lived. Having lived
So darling
Life may not be a fairy tale
But,
Pay yourself in royalties(you are gold).
Pay yourself like royalty
Cry when you have to, but otherwise
Laugh. Oh My Goodness, Laugh, and Run, and never stop running.
I like it now that we’re here
Riding waves
You were once a memory
A story I wanted to put away
Back then, when life was hanging on a thread
And we cried to God our last tears
We watched the sun rise, and set, and our hearts were never still
And the mountains were steep
And our knees broke
And our breaths grew short
And our hearts despaired
And our vision grew short
And we wanted to hit walls
We wanted to go back, run away, start
We stopped, but we never stopped still
Our lungs caught another whim of air
Our music would never leave us
When the music ruled the airwaves
Air and Ground lost meaning
All became one
This, here, the movement of the body
Meant that we had truly left the harvest at the barn
The chicken could crackle all night
The cows could moo, the cats could purr
The showers of rain would come and go, we would not stop dancing
Tell me your story,
So I can understand you
I can’t promise you life wishes
The moon and sky are far for me too
Let me understand the depths of your pain
And the stones life threw at you
