Mantra

I have and always 
will embrace the idea
that life is to
be lived that the
present is far richer
than the past and
definitely the soil of
the future I believe
that today is more
important than tomorrow and
that the past is
history I implore you
remember yesterday imagine tomorrow
but live for today

MorningSherbet

The low eastern sun
is now painting downtown
the softest of orange
as though the buildings
have they themselves been
dipped into a puddle
of sherbet and sprinkled
with morning as though
Denver is on the
menu at Dairy Queen

IttyBittyPlace

Some things do return 
and some things don’t
it’s in that gap
that itty bitty place
where missing often happens
and this missing is
by far bigger than
the time spent together
I guess that there’s
something to be said
in just how we
remember things be them
better or for worse
for how we remember
wills just how big
that itty bitty place
does need to be

Imagined

If you only knew 
only knew how many
times I imagined you
imagining you with me
if you only knew
how I would hold
you how I did
hold you when I
imagined you if you
only knew then and
now I think about
then then when I
imagined you because now
I have and do
and even in my
wildest of imagining you
I never imagined you
to be like this

MeBookI

If I were a 
book I’d prefer to
be read by someone
who has already read
me someone who knows
and anticipates and waits
for their favorite page
and favorite part someone
who enjoys my weight
and the wait the
wait for it to
happen there’s always something
good about the familiar
a cozy place a
welcome spot and if
I were a book
I’d hide in plain
sight and always overlooked
for there is nothing
special about me except
to those who have
already dared to read