I’m no longer afraid
Or angry oh yes
I retreated into myself
When like a turtle
I’d been touched too
Often by unfamiliar hands
But now time passed
And out I come
No longer wishing to
Impress but be impressed
Like a tarnished penny
Full of glee at
The sight of newly
Minted and shiny pennies
Oh aren’t they beautiful
Here is my
New Year’s resolution
I promise myself
I will have
Peace love affection
Respect kindness compassion
Wit sarcasm frivolity
With whomever I
Ever do encounter
And that will
Bring us joy
And will bring
Us forever closer
And never apart
I leave things behind
I do admit that
So so many things
So many in fact
That people become things
Too it’s not that
I wish to or
Want to or even
That I need to
I just do I
Guess because leaving things
All of these things
That I leave behind
Is because they belong
Where I found them
And frankly they’re not
Mine to take anywhere
I leave them there
Letting others find them
Just like I did
The problem with us
Meeting there not here
Is that there isn’t
Either you or I
It’s someone else’s else
Here is where I
Am and you’re there
Where you are and
Well that other place
Isn’t either of us
So how can we
Possibly be us in
A place that’s neither
There was this one
Time under the sycamore
You were above me
On one elbow and
Looking down and just
As a late August
Breeze blew your flaxen
Hair from your face
At that same moment
The low afternoon sun
Caught the corner of
One of your eyes
And there then inside
I did see the
Deep blue pool of
Your soul and to
It’s bottom where I
Saw you swimming throughout
The eons of your
Lives and right then
I knew that like
Now we’d been together
And then taking my
Hand you said come
Swim with me and
I said just like
We’ve done so many
Times before and you
Said um yeah sure
It was that day
That I knew then
That only some of
Us are lucky enough
To remember the pasts
