Poem 11
Home is where I feel
warm and safe and at peace with
who and what I am
Poem 12
love is wandering
but not lost
coming home
to a new place
with the same smells
quiet
like morning
just before the sun
rises
loud like the thumping
of your heart
inside your ears
when you're standing on the edge
of something great
calm
like the sea
after a storm
but wild
as the roots of a tree
hundreds of years old
love is a living thing
Poem 13
Those seconds when I
first wake up
and
don't remember
you're not here
I roll onto my side
smile in my sleep
and reach
into the space
where
you should be
I am fully awake now
and I tell my journal
that lonely
is a noun
the absence of a person
a place I go to reluctantly
this thing that keeps me
company
when you're not here.
Poem 14
I write because there
are words in my head
that bed to be strung together
and
I think
only I can make
sense
of them
they beg to be epic dramas
and short fantasies
stories that have no beginning
stories I wish wouldn't end
these stories
these words
they crowd my insides
until I release them
unable to take a breathe
until they're told
Poem 15
My poems are time capsules
memories
captured in verses
thoughts
from a time
I can no longer touch
A one way window
letting me see
the she
I used to be
when I need help
remembering.
Poem 16
I stand on the edge
and stare down
below me
My toes tease the open air
I search for fear
in the pit of my belly
but am met instead
with butterflies.
I bounce on the balls of my feet
close my eyes
and take a breathe.
There is nothing to do now
but leap
and trust me wings to carry me.
Poem 17
I am
suffocating
suff
o
cating
suffoca
ting
there is
no air
anywhere
no
potential
for a breath
I am
fading
running out of
options
Poem 18
I delivered my
children. and they delivered
me. shared gift of love.
Poem 19
Change is inevitable
but when
will the lives we've lost and
the lives we stand to lose
mean enough
for a change
to be made
when will that distant tomorrow
finally become
today
Poem 20
my heart beats a bit
quicker these days it feels just
like falling in love.