Joan……… forgotten?……. No way
From 19 to 30 you adopted me as your little brother being around you made me feel so special…..you were a looker and I was passable….. I always wanted more than that but you knew how to be honest with me….and let me down easy we had been out drinking…
Read MoreGet Me Otta Here….
Hey You……..healer in the sky…… get me otta here…..this place where everything is sharp and jaded……please get me otta here where the sun doesn’t warm it passes through you and everything is cloudy and the wind seems to have singled you out. Get me otta here Hey You…I know you’re…
Read MoreSometimes……..
“Perhaps” was my favorite word for a long time….. but it has been replaced by “Sometimes”….. Because everything is vulnerable to “sometimes” sometimes ttucro
Read MoreJust one of the clowns
Just one of the clowns that hangs around trying to remember what he was talking about… just one of the clowns that writes it all down…..holing you will know what Im saying…… One of the clowns that still believes Santa Claus is real…. He just dresses differently….. Just one of…
Read MoreEveryman…..777
I bend…..I break……I cry…….I laugh……I fear…..I believe…….I doubt…… I trust……trust is broken…..I blame…..I accept responsibility….. I lie….. I cheat……I steal…. I give…..I gain….I lose…..I love…..I hate……..I forgive…….I never forget I live……I die I am Everyman……… ttucro
Read MoreBefore She Slipped Away….for Joan G.
Be careful with people you love to make sure they know how you feel…….what their relationship means to you and the impact they have had on your life…..nothing can bring them back…….when they are gone they are gone…….their memories will be bittersweet…..but you will be able to heal more quickly…
Read MoreAlone with GOD?
Yes I know what the inference is ……that no other people are around…… but it is still a misnomer If you are with God and God is in you…… You are never without God nor alone with God Never ….. ttucro
Read MoreTalking to Strangers
All Humans have experienced calamity in their lives…..some bury it so deep an excavator would be needed to bring it back up……. Others set it aside and refer to them as an occasion similar occurs…… they don’t hide from them but they don’t live there…….. Those are people that can…
Read MoreJust like you……
I know people who assume they always know what they are talking about….. x I know people that rely on others to make them happy…..x I know people that pretend to be things they are not……x I know people that swear they always tell the truth…..x i know people that…
Read MoreGrow where you are planted…….4 Danielle
I’m sure you know someone who seems to never find their way and unless they make drastic changes they remain lost…….careening from one mishap to the next —————————————————————————— then their are others because of their personality and drive are going to be productive no matter the circumstances or adjustments…….. they…
Read MoreCritic’s Choice
The appraisal of your life will be directly linked to the people you let write it………..or don’t ttucro
Read MoreNaked
There are occasions in my life and probably in most people’s lives that everything they thought was valuable, noble and true is stripped from you. initially you have to accept it or continue beating your head against the wall…..your choice you resurrect the things that remain solid……you test how thick…
Read MoreCasualties of war
The bullet you shot almost did me in but it went through my heart and began to spin …….although you intended for it to just affect me……. the casualties of war take a long time to see the casualties of war take a long time to see ttucro
Read MoreBeautiful pain……isn’t it?
I mean it has to be for something or someone when you hear the expression “it’s so ugly it’s almost attractive”…… is that true with pain as well you just have to file it and put protective borders around it so every grimace……every tear can be recanted for future reference…..just…
Read MoreNobody In Philadelphia in October
The cars round the Avenue by the River……. But there is nobody there Couples ride bikes and stroll the paths …… but there is nobody there Downtown is ablaze with lights and sounds, figures flash to and fro…… but there is nobody there throngs….crowds…..congestion alone is alone alone is alone…
Read MoreSacrifice ………for Henri
In a lifetime everyone will experience love gained and love lost…….. but in the rarest occasions we send love and loved things away…… because it was the right thing to do perhaps that is ultimate love…….. sacrifice
Read MoreTalking to myself in Philadelphia
You should have seen it coming…….. You trained them how to treat you….. Maybe if you had given more…… Maybe if you had given less…… Maybe if you weren’t so old…….. Maybe if you weren’t so young at heart…… Maybe if I could fly………. move on or move over…….your…
Read MoreAcceptance 43
I was trying to forget who I am …. then I thought about who I’m not….. decided I wasn’t that bad after all…… just needed some work…… ttucro
Read MoreI don’t hate you anymore…… for me
I don’t hate you anymore because I know you’re trying I don’t hate you anymore because I see you struggling to find a balance between service to others and taking care of yourself I don’t hate you because I have examined your motives and I realize your words don’t always…
Read MoreThey are are long stories…..
The problem with short versions of anything……they are short and leave out the details of why….when…and where….. If it’s worth telling or writing tell all of it or the details will be filled in with conjecture…. Short is in fact……short Ttucro
Read MoreCandles in the Dark
We had candles but we couldn’t find a match as the night grew darker and colder we intertwined and kept each other safe and warm I kept fumbling around to where I thought I had dropped them and my fingers ran across the cover i was just about to strike…
Read MoreThe Glove that Fell Out of Your Pocket
I kept you warm and you’re loved sliding your hands into my fur…. but you got careless you stopped protecting me by snapping the coat pocket….. you stopped checking to see if I was there…… playing in the leaves I tumbled out as you rolled….. the wind picked up and…
Read MoreNot Far Away
There is a place I go and it gives me peace……. Lifts my spirits and keep me safe…. it gets pulled and it gets scraped and it often bends and sometimes…… breaks but it is the only way I can life a life that is true to myself……..my heart and…
Read MoreBigger wings
The mother bird approached her son standing on the edge of the nest…….he stood staring into space she asked “son what’s on your mind?” ”im praying Mom” “ for what May I ask”” ” bigger wings Mom”…….”why “ she asked ”mom there is someone I want to take with me”…
Read MoreDriver
Someone you thought you knew…….tells you they lie to protect themselves from you finding who they are you drive…..sometimes fast and sometimes slow….but you drive you chose to unravel your world 🌎 to put it back together cutting out the cancer…… you drive you pick up people that remind you…
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