...and So Should I Be

It seems like it just flows sometimes often
whenever I remember to forget about
what it is that I thought I must do,
and in these times, I am (and so should I be).

Slivers of Sentiment

Slivers of sentiment,
shards of shared memories,
dreams of happily ever after shattered,
and no one knows how to clean up the pieces
without getting cut
and bleeding all over the place
in awkward apologies and vulnerable vengeance.

Better Times for New Beginnings

If there is no time like the present
Then why are so many trapped in the past
Waiting for the future to rescue them?

There must be better times for new beginnings
than the poor excuses we let slip through our fingertips.

What We Once Were

Insert your own commas:

I'm sorry
I loved you
the best I could
believe in something
greater than
this is
what I am
now that we're not
feeling
what we once were.

Get It Out

Don't you think I know by now?
Don't you know I realize?

Yes, there is a blindness, an ignorance,
but it hasn't been bliss.

I just wanted to let you know.
I just had to get it out.

I Guess I Was Wrong

I thought I loved the freedom,
the wonder of it all,
I was infatuated by the thought,
the experience.
I laid myself down,
I let myself go,
I fell from grace.

I wanted you to know,
I thought you would care.

I guess I was wrong.

Inspired by "Casting Shadows"

Richardson Beach Stairs
Originally uploaded by amy allcock

It's not what I see
When the sun looks at me
My shadow cast

Inspired by "Registrations of the Past"

Montage of US number plates_c
Originally uploaded by Jon Bower

Past lives registered
Places I have been
Officially

Inspired by "Stand in the place where you live"

Time rushes through
The darkened world outside
But I am home

The appreciated moment

It’s the simple, the silent, the appreciated moment
     That reminds me how much I love you,
And so, I remain,
     Mindful of the time that we are given
     Expecting to remember.

My pain, my heart

If I try, I can still remember the crime,
   The time,
   The how and the where that it was that I lost it…

A sunlight noonday,
   Green, summer-field betrayed,
   Running freely,
   Playfully fun,
   I didn’t see it coming,
   So unknowingly
   I lost it,
 So I left my heart…

I threw it in the stream running there,
   Where last I gave it,
   Broken,
   Useless,
   Undone.

I abandoned all hope
   Of its return.
I forfeited all remembrance
   Of its existence.

Until, somehow, the current brought it,
   Without my knowing,
   Without my expectation,
 To You,
 To offer,
   So reverently,
   Back to me.