Flying Dreams
Silver unicycle
Tranquil country lane
Warm-cool summer breeze
Temperature perfection
Flawless equilibrium
Faster and faster
Scenery speeding past
In slow motion
Unfocused clarity
In peripheral vision
Outrunning anxiety
Apprehension cannot catch me
Hair flying
Lungs infused with cool clean oxygen
Aerating through bone marrow
Purifying blood cells
Gushing back out through porous skin
To merge again with morning wind
I am the zephyr
The zephyr is me
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At Bottom on the Sea
In an instant, I was plunged down to the bottom of the sea
For a year or so in darkness, I barely knew that I was me
Didn't move, didn't think, immersed in deep despair
When no longer you can breathe, you've no need for land or air
Sleeping on the sea floor, perhaps to dream it all away
Then wake to my own screaming, lungs filling up with briny bay
Saturated with exhaustion, struggled up, thinking of homeland
To foraged on algae and plankton that I sifted through the sand
Waterlogged gut and aching heart, mind rocky run aground
Awareness of how abruptly I'd been knocked overboard and downed
But others remain living, who need my survival and are believing
That my affirmation is required that it is okay to keep on living
When one irreplaceable facet of the group has taken leave
So I undertake the struggle, to get back to the air and light
It's been years now, I won't lie, I'm still seeking to win this fight
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Siblings Are Friends You Just Can't Get Rid Of
Siblings are enemies you cannot escape
Bound by blood
Bound by history
You know the real me
What's behind the mask I wear for others to see
Shared parents and vacations, and long Sunday drives
You always got the window seat ‘cause you got car sick - yeah right!
We shared a dinner table and breakfast...and bad manners too
A shared room, a shared mess, a shared bed, (the wetting was you)
We made mud pies together, and ate them, (or at least we tasted)
You gave me measles. I gave you mumps. (Those fevers truly sucked)
We nursed one another's heartbreaks
We dried each other's tears
We yelled and screamed, you said you hated me
You're a day person. I'm a night
You wanted to be early but I made you late
We became adults together
Buried our parents side-by-side
I hurt your feelings. You made me angry
We were callous and mean without even thinking
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Pretty Darned Smart
She was quiet and shy, a naive little thing
An invisible girl, a puppet on a string
Sleepwalking through life
No big plans, goals, or dreams
She didn't feel special, or pretty, or smart
But when she was alone, she would sing from her heart
Her voice was pleasant, but no one ever knew
And neither did she, she hadn't a clue
She had two older sisters, and they all shared a room
With bunk beds, in a room, that was designed just for two
As the youngest of three, she'd no bed of her own
Yes it's true, though not fair, what's a little sister to do
But....In this rectangular two-sister-bedroom's far corner
Was the door to a storage room, just the right size for one boarder
Where an old metal bed, abandoned by older brother
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Blood Stained Shoes
Here I stand with beating heart,
Laid bare and bleeding in outstretched hands.
Take it please. I don't want it any more.
I've ripped it out, removed the aching part,
I don't know how else I might find peace.
While you are in such deep distress.
But my sorrow grants not your happiness,
In fact my grief may hinder it.
So why do I stand here, heart in my hands,
Dripping blood onto my shoes?
If I find my happiness, might it encourage yours?
But here I stand foolishly, blood staining my shoes.
I'm desperate to detour your destructive path.
And in my mind, hold a photograph, of what I want for you.
Abrupt insight allows me to see, you have visions of your own.
And I recognize, I can't achieve, even what I've envisioned for me.
So how, oh how, can I unshackle you?
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