I had finally realized
that the ground beneath
my feet was barren
incapable of bearing fruit
so I laid waste
to everyone I knew
marched to the bridges
connecting me to them
and set them ablaze
next it was fields
and finally my home
It was then I
knew that everything I’d
known was finally gone
enriching the earth itself
preparing it and me
for the next harvest
Category: Friendship
Promises
At this my long
in the tooth phase
I know that plans
and promises are as
unlikely to be kept
as an explorer spinning
a tale in order
to receive favor from
his king boasting of
a brave new world
Sometimes people do stay
true pointing to their
horizons but those are
likely only the adventurers
and the truly courageous
LittleThings
There is an infinite
amount of beauty in
our world but for
me it’s in little
things like a child’s
laugh a dog’s yawn
midnight snowfall but my
favorite is your smile
and your hand reaching
for me as I
am about to go
SunMoon
Friends are the sun
and lovers the moon
the sun always seen
the moon not necessarily
the sun is certain
while the moon vexes
as the sun shows
us our soon exes
Before
Before before I wanted
to remember every nook
and cranny of my
then life I kept
memorizing memories like a
teenage girl remembering love
notes thinking that maybe
if I keep them
and recall them and
sigh about them then
maybe they will stay
but now with this
before this before after
the first before and
before this new now
came a firestorm which
scorched everything and those
precious fantasies of before
before turned into the
wasteland of now before
and now this new
now from the ashes
of everything gone before
and before before’s comes
hope and experience and
no longer expectation for
expectation burned before beforehand
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 