BravestSouls

Oh so many

Believe that the

Brave find themselves

Behind a gun

Or a sword

Or their fists

But the truly

Brave stand behind

Their hearts for

Those that believe

In love and

The unconditional sharing

Of the same

Are the bravest

Souls on earth

LetMeRemember

And just like

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

I have realized

That true beauty

Is only realized

At the point

At which it

Is gone forevermore

Is it that

Our eyes blind

Us or is

It that our

Heart sings a

Sweeter melody let

Me remember you

Like the winter

Remembers the summer

Like the drought

Remembers the rain

Let me remember

That one starlit

Night in Sardina

When your eyes

Outshone the heavens

ToNowhere

I stepped away

Like a storm

That dumped its

Rain on mountain

Tops deciding to

Be cloudy rather

Than another storm

Bringing peace instead

Of selfish torrents

Giving me room

To decide whether

What we offered

Was what’s needed

Rather than wanted

Like protective parents

With a child

In a bakery

Filled with desserts

And bread like

Travelers finally breaking

Free to see

The canyons vista

Please give me

Time to choose

Because I know

That one road

Leads to you

And the other

Well the other

Leads to nowhere

MyLifeGuard

And as I

Knew you responded

For my cry

For help chasing

Me down the

Beach as I

Was caught in

Life’s rip tide

Hollering here swim

Here to me

Flailing and tired

I followed your

Voice like a

Retriever following the

Splash here over

Here to me

I heard again

And again at

Last breaking free

And into the

Water of hopelessness

You ran grabbing

Me and pulling

Me into the

Safety of arms

Banality

And so like

An unopened letter

I’ve decided to

Keep myself to

Myself like a

Telephone that went

Silent mid sentence

I kept saying

Hello to no

One finally hanging

Up the receiver

Now like a

Snowless Christmas in

Wisconsin I’m missing

That one thing

That made all

Of the other

Banal things possible