Dawn

Like a warm bath
Caressing
My soul
Surrendered--
Suspended
With each breath
Silent without
Silence within:
Nirvana

"Sound of Silence,"

Paul Simon

Disturbed

(Cover)

Renaissance

I can never be
the love I lost,
So I remain without
As I've always been-
Half but Whole
"I am enough,"
Not of his reflection
But my own.
The lesson learned
From what now I see
To love myself
As much as
He loved me.

"All The Kings Horses,"

Mighty Rearranger,

Robert Plant 

and the 

Sensational Space Shifters

Collateral Damage

I don't think I'm cut out to be "handy."

 
I tried to replace
the cracked toilet-seat
in the guest bathroom.
I watched YouTube videos
about how easy it was.
And I just KNEW
I could do-it-myself, too.
So I tried. By God I tried.

The first bolt loosened easily.
The second one-not so much.
I used every. single. weapon 

I could find.
IT WOULDN'T BUDGE.
Struggling for hours
to slay the beast
I gave up.

Next morning,
I awoke with a huge bruise
on my "ahem" right chest area-
from wedging myself between
the wall and toilet to
wage war against
a superior adversary:
a stuck plastic nut.

I fought a brave battle,
but "the nut" prevailed,
kicking my prideful butt
to the curb--literally,
with my having only
the scars of a battle lost
and a sad story to tell about
how I came to have a bruise
the size of a softball
on my "ahem" 

right chest area.

"Le sigh."

Lesson learned:
"Call the man."

With love then, now, and always...

 On what would have been our 29th year of marriage...

"The Power Of Love,"

Marcia Ball

Our "Empty Garden"

“We have to say it:

remember, this is just a football game,

no matter who wins or loses...,"

Howard Cosell, December 8, 1980.

An unlikely father figure-

The messenger of a

Heart-breaking loss 
Felt 'round the world.
Just moments before,
Life was as it had

Always been,

Then there was nothing
But stunned silence-

One of our own,

Gone.

In a matter of seconds
Outside the Dakota in NYC,
On just an ordinary Monday,
Our innocence forever 

Interrupted.

"...Oh and I've been calling

oh hey hey Johnny

Can't you come out to play"-

Elton John, "Empty Garden."

Leveling Up

Truth is

No one owes me

A damn thing.

Those present

Want to be

Without obligation

Or expectation

Not from apathy

But from empathy-

Letting people "off the hook"

For being who they are

Rather than how

We want them

To be.

No longer with a

Sense of entitlement,

We're "Even Steven"-

Leveled-up

To what we never owed

Then, Now, and Forever...

Hafiz

Deliverance

Infinite be our

Human Failings,

Yet we must find

The courage to Trust.

For without Faith,

We are Nothing.