Footprints

Tread softly through your life,

Love lingers in the hearts of those you touch.

Seek to spread a smile,

Not to make an imprint.

The footprints you leave will be washed away,

But the memories you create will last forever.

Silence

Big difference between stillness of the soul & emptiness of the heart.

Is silence the absence of sound, or the void of darkness?

Either way, it's deafening.

And lonely...

Mantle-pieces

I love how quiet it gets after it snows,

When the skies finally clear,

And Orion takes his place to watch over me.

Safe, wrapped in a mantle of darkness.

Oh, what a sky this morning...sliver of a crescent moon looking up to Mars I think, on a background of changing blues.

Halcyon

Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a young man who loved the sea.

He followed the ocean road with a ginger cat & an old guitar, led by the stars, defending the weak & weaving dreams. He crafted stories of the Halcyon & the Stormwind Clan, delighting all who would listen.

His laughter could be heard on the wind; his song carried across the waves.

The love that filled his heart will live forever...

"If you jump, I'll beak your fall,

Lift you up & fly away with you into the night."

The Dance

I will never forget being asked to dance one night by my dear friend...as he sat in his wheelchair.

The thought had never crossed my mind that you could dance on wheels.

The thought had never crossed his that he couldn't.

And that's how he embraced this life. With a bright smile, a warm heart, & a joy for living in the moment. His chair didn't confine him, it mobilized him.

The cancer returned, stealthy & swift. The maniacal serial killer that is stalking through my life, adding so many names to his kill list. Special names, belonging to special people.

And his tops the list right now.

Silence

Silence doesn't always mean that the abuse has stopped.

Sometimes, you just give up trying to reach out to people.

Because no one really wants to listen.

Do they.

Dawn

There is a planet chasing a sliver of a moon across the blue-black expanse of the sky.

The chill winter air makes it shimmer, its light dancing in the early morning quiet.

The black silhouettes of the trees reaching their fingers in a futile attempt to capture the radiance, to hold something that cannot be possessed.

I remember a kiss in the sultry breeze of summer.

A memory trapped in the stillness.

Denial

Your fingertips trace a searing path across my spine,

Am intimate gesture of a private pain.

Emotions you so vehemently deny,

Yet reflected in the gaze that haunts my every move.

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Not then, not now.

Fyre

A single candle pierces the darkness,

Solitary beacon of hope.

Shadows dance beyond the edge of recognition,

Tentative shards of reality.

The wind changes,

The flame flickers...

And dies.

Tears

Rain plays staccato on the rooftop,

Mocking the rhythm of my heart.

Washing away the memory of you.

Loneliness

Flower in the snow,

Misplaced thing of beauty.

Wraith of innocence.

Solitude

Somber solitude,

Shrouded in silence of snow.

Stillness stalks my soul.

Icarus Redux

The wax melts from my wings,

The plummet begins.

A downward spiral,

The cost of dreams.

Future

A new day dawns,

And we cannot know what it holds.

For the plans we make, the dreams we have,

Can be altered in an instant.

We may profess to have direction

On the path that lies before us.

But a tree may fall to block our way,

And lead us down another course.

For who can really know

What adventures lie in the shadows.

Ripples

Start your own ripple.

You never know how far it will reach.

Freedom

Do not try to break the spirit,

Do not seek to tame the soul.

But love enough to offer freedom,

You'll be surprised what you can hold.