Month: July 2025

Resilient Roses

behind the closed

curtain

of her lashes

the petals

fell away

like the rain

revealing

a single stem

just as it is

still green

mid the thorns

and dead leaves

already

new buds

form …

reforming

and returning

TL

How Could You …

not for

a billion

a year

would i have

hurt you

that away

and it stops me

to this day

no matter

where i am

or how i am

the sun could be

out

the sky so blue

all the leaves green

and waving in the wind

smiling faces

all around

music overhead

and still

there’s a quiet

space

i can’t contain

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Wish You Were Here

in the shadow

of a summer

off the Florida

keys

if only

i had known

what i know now

would i have

sailed away

and took a risk

seen the sea

for what it was

never knowing

what lurks beneath

blinded by the surface

of the sun

thought i knew

the stars

for they twinkled

same as the sea

same as they did

way away

from me

and every facet

was a flame

that drew me in

taking hold

a lover of light

on a moth’s wing

the cemetery is silent

in its season

a body i once knew

has left

no box can hold

there was a rainbow

on the way

home

and the colors blurred

and melted like a snow

cone

and a part of me is here

and a part of me is there

and in the end

we are every

where

TL