MetaphorHorse (for Alex)

And someone did

At long last

Use my words

To contact me

Like the echo

In the canyon

Bumpity bump bump

Typed came back

Like a letter

Returned to sender

And I knew

That these words

That I write

Found their way

Finally to another

How many times

Have you been

Thrown from a

Horse he asked

A horse never

A metaphor horse

Far too many

Times I replied

And what do

You do then

He cautiously asked

I walk back

To the paddock

To find another

Far less ornery

I replied laughing

One like me

He shyly asked

One like you

I said trotting

Hopefully once again

AlwaysLookAhead

As I age

And more things

Appear behind me

Like missed exits

I am confident

That things remain

Still in front

Yet to be

Explored and discovered

And like that

One little leaf

Way out there

On skinny branches

I do know

In order to

Find anything new

I must then

Choose to remain

Always looking ahead

And never content

With things behind

LoveOfFriends (to my firemen)

It’s only ever

After not necessarily

Happily ever after

When I awaken

To something new

Around the old

Me like an

Ice storm coating

Everything in a

Brittle tender mask

Weighing me down

And snapping things

Like heart strings

Plucked from outside

Inside making thudding

Dead sounds like

That other shoe

That I’ve been

Waiting to drop

When friends rush

In like tiny

Firemen carrying buckets

Of water to

Not douse but

Free me from

My now icy

Self taking me

Back to someplace

Safe and warm

Sans the ice

Plucking then those

Same strings making

Them sing again

Now with laughter

Thinking (to Zaire)

I think I

Think that I

Think too much

Thinking I think

That thinking this

And thinking that

I think makes

Thinking I think

Thoughtless

Where as trusting

That me untrusting

You with trusting

Me trusts that

These things that

I think that

I think thinking

Turns this thinking

Into untrusting thoughtless

Thinking I think