Kindness (Mindlovemisery prompt 36 Virtue)

Kindness

Thin skinned-

in your storm

Pelted by words

stone heavy

Hoping you don’t see

the damage

I cover the wounds

they're easy to hide

from your eyes.

A smile wipes away

your anger, yet mine

stirs in a disquieted soul,

 wishing for a thicker armor

 but who would that be

 mirrored in such a cold reflection?

Not me,

and so I bleed.

Stories (for deverse, Hearth, Home and Common Speech)

  Stories

 I would love to hear-

 The rawness

 of your hurt, why you

 strive to rise above

 human pain and how

 the struggle taught you

 to mourn and feel

 compassion for even

 the coldest stranger.

  Tell me your story

  I will tell you mine.

  We will invent

  happy endings and look back

  without regret.

  For life is a great teacher

  its purpose, to make us

  one with our heaven

  where we will one day rest,

  breathing in gentle living,

  forsaking pain for pleasure,

  its lesson burned in our brow

Moments (for deverse 12/10/13)

Time-

Strange

how you follow me.

Memories

I often reach for, so I can feel

all those things which make up

my life.

All those moments

I knew would become

memories before I could

catch my breath.

This will not be a year

I will mourn, I did not

wear it well but as a new

beginning will soon arrive,

I will cast aside this heaviness

and embrace all I do not know.

Running

 What do you run from?

 Heart hidden in the shadow

 of years-

 Masquerading

 time worn worries

 in your bones-

 How you feared

 they would break

  and you would no longer

  feel the sun take the

  chill of loneliness from

  your aching arms.

  

Take Me Back (Mindlovemisery prompt 31)

Take me back

to the ocean as

wave upon wave

washed away the bad years

when you were only nine

and I had found hope again

that life could be normal.

Take me back before death

separated us and laughter

filled our afternoons in the

tiny apartment as she and I shared

our stories over hot tea amidst

the laughter of our children.

Take me back before he became

ill from a livelihood which riddled

his bones with warring cells.

Take me back before the isolation

and rage of loss filled our hearts

in that lonely cabin in the woods.

Take me back to that time

when I could look in the mirror

and know who I was.

Time (for deverse Calendar 11/23/13)

Time

If it had slowed

to the rhythm

of my heart-

Do you think

I would have worn

it better, felt its closeness

between each breath

treasured every tiny grain

as fate etched itself into each line?

I was following a destined path

without guide, only intuition

born of evolution

disguised as doubt-

Fragile as a falling flake of snow

descending to earth, time melts away

and leaves me cold with questions.

I Will Remember

 I Will Remember

 I will remember a world

 lost to the masses,

 lonely in its material guise

 and shallow soul.

I will take hold

in my heart

the memories when justice

was a worthy passion

and kindness fed the emptiness.

 I will remember

 the youth I left behind

 with  remorse for it fed

 me lies and left me hungry.

I will remember

all those things

I fought for,

some I attained,

many I lost-

But most of all

I will remember

that being here-

Brought me the joy

of knowing there was love..