When The Words Are Gone

Hard drawn moments look
To shut me down
When the words are gone
Where is my father

I am loosely tethered
To the life I’m in
When the words are gone
Where is my mother

What I wouldn’t give to be in a conversation with…

What I wouldn’t give to be in a conversation with

Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn. Hell. All of them.

Add John Steinbeck and James Salter, Charles Dickens! Leo Tolstoy!  Edith Wharton, Shakespeare,  Dos Passos, Austen, Emily Dickinson. Hell. All of them.

And Lincoln, Washington, TR, FDR. Hell. All of them.

Dr. King, Mandela, Gandhi, Malcom, Sadat, Eleanor Roosevelt. Hell. All of them.

Cuddle

Per the droppers on the window

hinting the scent of wet leaves

good reading weather

cuddle

Violence

I am sick of violence. All kinds.

Physical. Emotional. Spiritual.

Financial. Environmental. Bigoted.

Your capacity to inflict violence

is not a measure of your strength.

Rubbish. Violence and strength,

nothing synonymous

about them.

Write on

This the pathway to

Words touch tender touch

My page and my hand

Pen sends friendship

To your wordsmith self

Our camaraderie

Write on

People

Smile