Risk
don’t gamble on me
there’s far too much at stake and
you don’t know the score
–
what you see
I choose
to show
Category Archives: Cold
Comfort
a cold winter night
staccato rain on the roof
you, keeping me warm
–
winter’s eve
with you, I’m
warm inside
Avoidance
in grape arbor
a cardinal seeks shelter
from the driving rain
–
secluded
deep within
my wine glass
Salvation
drowning in darkness
heaved out and left on the rocks
gasping for the sun
–
sinking…
yearning for
the surface
Fatalism
I wake intent on
fighting an uphill battle
I know I will lose
–
high tide
a turtle shell
lies empty
Transience
jewels of morning dew
in a spider’s web, sunrise
scattered by diamonds
–
dawn
captured on
a silken thread
Detritus
I drag my feet through
the dust of relationships
that I’ve left behind
–
shuffling
forward into
an empty future
Expiration
a dying ember
brightened by love’s final breath
at last extinguished
–
autumn
the last robin
falls silent
Decisions
deeply search your soul
and when the darkness calls you
choose not to answer
–
evil
waits for an
eager listener
Walking
a trail of bent grass
left behind by my roaming
for you to follow
–
newly fallen snow
you’re walking
in my footsteps