What About Us

What about me
Was I what you thought at all
Did I live up to your fantasy
Did I step up to the call
 
What about you
Are you done with me at last
Have I used up your imagining
Your dream of what is past
 
What about us
Have you really seen me yet
Aren’t I someone after all
You never really met
 
What about us
What [...]

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Mess of Dreams

I stumbled onto you
A picture, no less
In fact there were three
 
Grinning in one
Head thrown back
Softness apparent
New to me
 
Black shades the next
Guitar aimed
Like an arrow
At her heart
 
But the last
The soul heavy tired eyes
I remember these
Even now
 
So old
For so young
A man
 
The one thing I never got
When I wrote this
The lines etch now
Just like yours
And I wonder why
I [...]

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Just a Kid

When you’re a teenager, you think you know everything. You also think you are indestructible.
I look at kids that age, and I see children. But once in a while, I see one who also reminds me of me. A certain squint in one eye, a stance, a way of breathing. Not willing to wait, be [...]

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Be True

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.–Janis Joplin
 
Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you will. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most [...]

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Sparrow

“I don’t believe in dream catchers.” she said. I looked at the small hoop that hung in the window, the only thing left behind. I paused, several beats, at a loss. Finally I ventured, “What do you mean when you say you don’t believe?” I didn’t want to offend or challenge, having nothing at stake [...]

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Just Be

 
Today. Begin.
Everything
You’ve worked for
Imagined
Dreamt
Longed after
Mourned
 
Today. Now.
Whatever
You had pictured
Envisioned
Slept on
Chased after
Sorrowed for
 
This day. Stop.
Whoever
You’ve projected
Pretended
Posed as
Run from
Scorned
 
Today. Just live.
What are you still running from?
Waiting for?
This is not a test.
You will not be graded.
 
 Just be.

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Don’t You Know?

Don’t you know?
I could say so much
Response is what you need
Don’t you know?
I see through you
And it was never me
You were talking to at all
No it wasn’t
Me you were talking to
Not at all
 
Don’t you see yet?
My lips are barely moving
I really don’t have
So much to say
Don’t you see yet?
My dreams are growing
I’ve learned to keep
Them [...]

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Premonition

He said the words
The tingle zinging through me
Blow by blow
Just exactly like my dream
 
Or was it a dream
At all
He says the words
Again
And my gaze wanders
I see it all the same
After all
 
He says the same words
Or was it just a dream
He says the same words
And I know
 
And I know I know
And I know he knows
I know [...]

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Kissing Frogs

Kissing Frogs
Well, no. I am not really kissing them. But petting them. Carefully, with one gentle fingertip.
They look on, silent, occasionally perched on my arm where they landed, jumping from the wake of my more vigorous watering and weeding.
They don’t seem to mind the petting, but I try never to subject them to my affections. [...]

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So Long

I’ve lost you
I think for good this time
I’ve lost you again
I’ve just now realized
How much I need you here
 
I’ve looked everywhere
I’ve tried everything
And I can’t replace you
I’ve pleaded time
And time again
But you aren’t coming back
 
I guess now it’s up to you
Or fate
Or the stars
Nothing I say
Seems to penetrate
Your stubborn heart
You’ve strayed
And nothing I can do
Will [...]

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