I have been meaning to write to you. There’s so much to share. I don’t even know where to begin. Where are you now? I picture you on your boat, the rolling seas mocking your exuberance. My patients often admonish me, “don’t get old!“ as if I can stop time taking space across my face. Continue reading “Don’t get old!”
Author Archives: Life: Between the lines
What’s lost!
I don’t know about anyone else and their journey. I can only speak on mine and my solo journey. Some days I wish I could do so in its totality but 1: no one really cares 2: what will it accomplish? My daughter’s friend father committed suicide. She is saddened to bring the news toContinue reading “What’s lost!”
Wail onto the night!
When do you give up on a dream? Do you hold on, keep on trying, until the day you die? Every breath is another lie. Try and try, everything is well-nigh. I wake then lay. Erect, the pole yea high. Beyond me, stretch stretch up to the sky. Yearning and earning. Wanting and waiting WhenContinue reading “Wail onto the night!”
Spent!
When youth is grown It’s through the days of youth that’s grown you realize how time’s spent. You live and breathe in their embrace to love, provide and protect. Hour by hour, day by day, their existence consumes you. You wake to the light in their eyes, swim in their yearnings and lay down inContinue reading “Spent!”
The balancing act
Everyone needs someone sometimes. It may need be today, this moment or tomorrow. It may not be this one or that one or another. It will be one, anyone, someone. Feeling used differs from useful in that the one being used has a need the other isn’t meeting. Feeling useful underlines reciprocity, not in theContinue reading “The balancing act”