Today

I’m feeling sad today

Empty really rather unnoticed

Like an ice cream

Cone in February or

Like a sled in

July here in my

Home wondering if no

One out there knows

That I’m here will

They even miss me

Yours

It is simply this

Your eyes your eyes

Are like two coffees

Two espressos sitting in

White white porcelain cups

One caffeinated winking at

Me across the room

Asking for my patience

While the other one

Decaffeinated at the end

Of the night buried under

Blanket asking me to

Come and sip and

Taste before my sleep

Change

Change is never easy

It is always confronting

Just ask the tree

That loses its leaves

If it misses summer

On its way to

Winter and I think

That you will hear

It sigh saying don’t

Miss things on your

Way to other things

FreshAir (for Khalil)

You know when you

Open that first window

On a spring day

And the breeze blows

In and your home

Is suddenly filled with

Freshness and crisp chill

And you stand there

Sighing smelling and shivering

Closing your cardigan and

Wrapping your arms across

Your chest yeah yeah

You’re like that just

Like that to me

IfNotWhyThenWhat

Just tell me why

Don’t hide behind ignorance

Please don’t hide behind

Veiled innocence when you

Know why you did

And please don’t apologize

Please don’t ask forgiveness

Because what you did

Was not a mistake

You chose your answer

To your own question

If you won’t say

Why at least say

What what your question

Was that you answered

That will give me

The why you did