Category: Growing Up

SafeHarbor (to You)

~ Harlan Didrickson

Awakened and sweating

Unable to shake

The demon ravens

From my minds

Canopy they roost

Hiding in dreams

Which linger like

The bitter taste

Of some pill

I am reminded

That my dreams

Can break through

My slumber like

Thieves’s flashlights searching

For my sanity

Finding they crush

Rip and steal

Leaving me empty

Hollow and weeping

Until I turn

And remember you

My one reality

Bringing me back

To my world

Once again safe

Unable to sleep

Watching you breathe

Slowing my heart

To beat yours

Peace at last

Comes to me

My one anchor

Amidst stormy seas

Mooring me you

In safe harbor

Nightmare

~ Harlan Didrickson

My dreams haunted

Me with cruelty

Of people pursuing

And of torture

Me a loving

Man I wonder

What dreams mean

Unable to sleep

Wallowing in meanness

And abject inhumanity

I pray to

My Heavenly Father

To hear the

Sweet angelic lullabies

Billiards

~ Harlan Didrickson

I feel like

A billiard game

Setup and broke

Apart by ones

That look like

Me but have

Selfish purpose it

Aims and collides

Sending me sailing

Off others and

Out of play

Until all of

Me is spent

Then I’m silent

The game over

Then at once

Racked up again

And sent careening

Just like meteors

PatiencePeace

~ Harlan Didrickson

I was blessed

With peace but

Patience not that

I prayed for

Now I have

It and understand

The calmness both

Bring waiting is

A profound blessing

I learned that

It’s best to

Allow a River

To free itself

From a logjam

Rather than me

Jumping pounding stomping

On the trees

Let the flow

Of your life

Free itself from

Complications have patience

To gain peace

Toes

~ Harlan Didrickson

A philosophy says

That each of

Us has three

True loves in

Life usually the

First is yourself

Only then can

You truly love

Another in my

Case I loved

First wandering in

The wilderness and

Finally loved me

It was a

Path of which

I don’t recommend

Concentrate on you

First and dance

There with you

Before you step

On another’s toes