Earthquakes no longer feel foreign to my body

My mind is racing and my ego is gaudy

Hurricanes no longer cause shivers down my spine

Everything they are is everything that is mine

Tornadoes no longer can blow my life over

My body stands fast as the grass and the clover

Thunder no longer scares me at night

The sounds from above are the sounds in my mind

Forever no longer sounds like sure death

...

I listen and watch

The words begin to fall

Out of Grandpa’s mouth

He breaks down the walls

The wisdom he shares

Moves mountains in me

These burdens I can’t bear

Like he can really see

He says we become good

At what we practice day by day

I share it with my students

And they take it as they may

These roots run deep

The lessons antique

Listening to the wise

Leaves us so much to keep

When they’re g...

Time had never passed so slowly

Time went by, kept me weeping lowly

Stuck in the mundane

Stuck forever won’t keep me sane

Time had never passed so slowly

Each moment I could feel my soul bleed

Stuck in life’s long line

Have I ever felt fine?

Time had never passed so slowly

Time kept ticking and left me lonely

Stuck without hope

Stuck going down slope

Time had never passed so slowly

I left the c...

There is this feeling that haunts a soul

It is the feeling of being

Of growing too old

This feeling is in me, I feel it sometimes

It haunts me at day

But mostly at night

What I wasn’t expecting is how I would feel

When another person told me

This feeling is real

This feeling is one of sorrow and pain

It makes you feel

Your life is of shame

Life comes with a burden

A burden unwelcomed

Let’s ju...

You never truly saw me

For who I was alone

You only had a picture

Of a life and love and home

You placed me in that picture

As a caring submissive wife

Not knowing I would leave you

And cause you all that strife

You never truly knew me

A soul not hard to learn

I asked you simple questions

And it’s like you never heard

I really thought I loved you

But the truth always comes out

You only had one sou...

Mundane though it may be

With you I always see

The beauty in this world

The meaning all unfurled

You have helped me so

With the quality of hope

Each day I see your face

And yearn for your embrace

If you ever leave

I’ll forever long to see

You in another life

Where I’ll still be your wife...

I told you, but I’m not sure.

How did you take it?

How was it heard?

I told you, but it haunts me still.

What were you thinking?

Did it take you for thrill?

I told you, but I wonder.

Do you see me the same?

Did I commit a blunder?

I told you, but I fear.

Will you tell others?

My heart, did you hear?

I told you, but I can’t know.

Do I truly trust you?

Will you let my truth show?

I told you, but ...

I am a cluster

A knot of emotions

Joy or fluster

It’s always some notion

I am a mass

A bundle of feelings

First or last

I want to find healing

I am an aggregate

Purple or green

Like a bunch of grapes

On the branch I am leaning...

Stay gentle

Don’t get so tough

Stay gentle

Though life can be rough

Stay gentle

The world is so cruel

Stay gentle

Let love be your fuel

Stay gentle

Our system is mean

Stay gentle

Like the grass is green

Stay gentle

Be a safe place for others

Stay gentle

Show care like a mother

Stay gentle

The world knocks us down

Stay gentle

Keep your heart sound

Stay gentle

Not everyone can

Stay gentl...

Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

Live your life and enjoy it, the way God said you should.

It sounds so easy, when you say it like that.

But what I can’t get over, is all this excess fat.

My brain won’t let me enjoy this life.

There’s a constant reminder of pain and of strife.

I try my best, to get out of my comfort zone.

But my brain keeps saying I need to stay ho...