Coin

If a word
was never enough
then what was
emptied I did
coffers of heart
sending gold skyward
scattering I searched
for but never
found that one
simplest of coin

Didn’t

It amazes and 
too sometimes amuses
me that when
someone who hasn’t
in many years
in decades even
finds their way
back to me
and yet those
who were nearby
nearest and nearly
dear just couldn’t
or maybe wouldn’t
but definitely didn’t

Alone

Having run
the horse
until sweaty
I slide
off swatting
letting it
go in
whichever direction
it wants
for it
has taken
me as
far as
it can
and it’s
from here
I must
go alone

Lil

And then 
this
with its
less
I wonder
what
if at
all
it means

Growing

Now that nothing 
has become something
so much so
that I defend
it sword in
hand shield at
side against the
incessant drums of
far off life
just like I
remember doing when
I was younger
out back in
the alley before
the adulthood armies
overtook me and
I became a
prisoner of a
war that I
had no idea
I was fighting