Long moments looking
a waste or
quality understood
Rain sounds on the skylight
an excuse or
acute awareness
There is a new summer rose in bloom
fragile in her detail knowing
Slim chance for longevity
against wind and sky waterfalls
A pale blue light invites calm
still no peace prevails
I sing my mantra anyway
shadows slow dance with my walls
futility or
a dreamer’s possibility🪶
I stand inside this doorway
with patience and my daydream
What thoughts arise between now
and the moment somebody utters when
Look around at all these photographs
none of which I see my reflection in
Seconds pass and in the background
a choir is repeating what John Lennon
said so cogently a long long time ago
And here I stand next to where you might
be standing quiet too asking in one voice
How long (how many lifetimes) until we win
While you are sleep dreaming
a trio of shadows alights in your room
You might hear their faint chorus
a distant melody deep sweet and low
What message their voices whisper
a calm symphony or euphonious hum
Gifts they leave for discovery
light passages welcome a new day
Lift your eyes toward ceiling at dawn
imagine there cloudless quiet skies
Three shadows meet in your window
looking in looking out through you
Something
or someone gnawed
through the screen so
now nothing may stop
the sea from gaining
entry
nor me falling
out.
Maybe a thousand years from now
when no one knows my name
the one who finds the note I write
slipped between these silent walls tonight
will know this was once my house
surrounded by these tall pine woods
where I wandered with wild lilies, spring roses, and butterflies
where I stood looking up to wide open starry skies
talking with the moon
where I lit candles in empty rooms
And I photographed my cat
who sat waiting patiently near the door
so she wouldn’t be left behind.
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Trees root
I shelter
Wolves ramble
I dancer
Rivers ripple
I breathe
They are we
We are we
Life key
Unlocked
Indomitably
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