LoveIs

Love is gravity

It keeps us

Grounded for without

Either or both

We would simply

Easily float away

Like the clouds

Do every day

GoodDog

I am much

Like a dog

I enjoy being

Teased and played

With petted and

Called patted and

Reassured invited onto

The couch bathed

And preened and

Fed and like

A dog I

Enjoy being by

Your side on

Wooden trails in

Snow and rainy

Afternoons but what

I like most

Is simply this

The one that

You turn to

For comfort when

You are sad

That’s my place

Next to your

Warm hearts hearth

FriendToMe

I’ve been asked

What’s a friend

How do you

Know who is

Or even which

One could be

A friend is

A favorite book

That you’ve read

A dozen times

That you quote

In troubling times

That book that

Somehow is always

Reached for or

Lands in your

Lap or bed

Those characters and

Those stories and

Those adventures that

Make you believe

There is something

More than you

They’re the last

Person that you

Think about as

You fall asleep

Dreaming of them

GoingHome

Like a duck

On a pond

I have heard

The winds song

Time to go

It is saying

This isn’t home

Home is there

Way out there

Beyond your imagination

Here is where

Home let you

Be before you

Eventually get there

Migrating

It’s time time

To go I

Hear the winds

Of flight swirling

Around me almost

Lifting prompting me

To come go

Somewhere anywhere else

Remain I do

Hopeful hopefully hopeful

That you’ll change

Change you don’t

So change I

Must leaving you

And all of

This behind me

I’m a migrating

Bird letting the

Winds take me

To someplace else

Any place else

Than right here