Category: Affection

ThatLittleLump (to Bean)

~ Harlan Didrickson

Sometimes we can’t shake

The shambles that we

Left something in it’s

Impossible to clean house

Completely when you know

That there’s a bin

Filled with painful memories

Tucked in some corner

I have to steely

Myself to even approach

Much less open it

What I want to

Avoid is the tsunami

Of emotion I know

Is coming I want

To flee rather than

Confront I want to

Dismiss to hide things

Under the rug of

My life and pretend

That the little lump

At the far corner

Is not in fact

The beating heart of

Someone that I loved

So many years ago

WantNeedThink

~ Harlan Didrickson

If I don’t want

Then I don’t need

I don’t play games

With words placing importance

If I don’t want

Then I don’t think

If I’m not thinking

Of say maybe you

Then you no longer

Exist in the place

That I kept you

Making room for more

Likely someone that I

Will be thinking about

Go

~ Harlan Didrickson

Letting go of one

Means you can grab

Another we only have

Two hands one to

Reach and the other

To hold it’s a

Juggling game switching one

To the next only

Ever really having one

Either let go of

What you know or

Let go of what

You want one might

Become the other but

Something has to go

Newness

~ Harlan Didrickson

There is comfort

In the uncomfortable

There is newness

Sometimes our comfort

Being a thing

Of old masquerades

It brings acceptance

And our complacency

It begins to

Grind which we

Don’t hear having

Gotten used to

The hum but

Once we switch

Off the machine

And step free

The discomfort of

Silence almost immediately

Brings those deep

Sighs of hope

NewYear

~ Harlan Didrickson

In this year

I don’t want

To be anything

To anyone else

I want to

Be just me

For and by

Myself and all

Of the others

Well they can

And should and

Probably will be

Themselves for themselves

And then maybe

And just maybe

They will see

In me what

They have not

And I in

Turn will see

Hopefully that too