this is me leaving
i will not embrace
i will not totally surrender
i will not keep things in there place
this is me not thinking it over
this is me saying good-bye
this is me saying i love you
this is me trying not to cry
this is me leaving
you
now
and for ever more
i will wonder and i will wander
what might have been
if [...]
Archive for March, 2008
This is me leaving
Posted in poetry, tagged love addiction on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The One I allow to see me
Posted in 12 Step Program, Acceptance, Grace, Higher Power, Prayer, gratitude, love, poetry, spirtual awakening, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, Higher Power, love, poetry on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The One I allow to see me
The One who hears me cry
The One who always loves me
The One who never asks why.
The One who walks beside me
When other friends have gone.
The One who can forgive me
For all the things I have done wrong.
The One who lives within me.
The One who fills the void.
The One [...]
some favorite things none spelled right
Posted in poetry, tagged poetry on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
gastronomical orgasisms
starry nights
font memories
When I was a young child I loved life.
When a young teen I wanted a love life.
As a wife, a mother, I wanted time to put love in my life.
As a senior
I love life
and still want a love life
and the time to put love in my life.
So in contemplation
When I kneel and pray
I know what [...]
The Last Post
Posted in poetry, tagged poetry on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last post is a blessing
on a cold long night
when walking the beat as a policeman
when he can turn the corner
go around the block
no more fight
no more clock
no more talk.
The last post is bugle blaring in the day
blasting out its message of death
for the soldier who has gone away.
The last post is a signpost
on the [...]
My new friend
Posted in Acceptance, Aging, love, poetry, tagged Acceptance, Aging, poetry on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
She is “old enough to know better
too young to resist”
She is fun.
She is flirty.
She is happy.
She is full of bliss.
She is totally insane.
She loves walking barefoot.
She loves walking in rain.
She enjoys children.
People who are young
are her teachers.
People who are old
are her peers.
She is full of laughter.
Much younger than her years.
She is wise.
She is witty.
I [...]
May I hear your Voice
Posted in 12 Step Program, Higher Power, Sunlight of the Spirit, gratitude, love, poetry, recovery, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, balance, discipline, gratitude, Higher Power, mindfullnes, poetry, surrender on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May I hear your Voice
in the laughter of a child
in the kindness of a friend
May my heart be open to
mindfulness
that this your child
I would have harmed with my anger
I would have harmed with my gossip.
May I surrender
these character defects
to open my life to balance.
Then the Sunlight of the Spirit
will cleanse me as I obey.
Bringing balance
patience
beauty
into [...]
I love life
Posted in poetry, tagged poetry on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love life.
I am glad I was your wife.
I am glad I was your daughter.
I am glad I was your sister.
I am glad I was alive.
I love life.
I have loved all the lives I lived.
I am, in this one, however, learning to forgive.
Time for Letting Go
Posted in 12 Step Program, Aging, Detachment, Father, Prayer, poetry, sorrow, surrender, tagged 12 Step Program, Detachment, Father, love, poetry on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He said his father died
Two hours before the meeting.
(I know that if my Father had just died that
I would not have had the strength to be at a meeting.)
I caught my breath.
I could not breathe.
(I heard another voice saying
“Your Father has just died.”)
I am not in that place that I need
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