Not directing your future
not concerned with your past
not worrying about your pace
be it slow or be it fast

do not know where you've been
do not know where you'll go
know nothing of when or then
I only know of here and now

look into my face and see
a quiet needle resting there
a needle that is floating free
peacefully present for your stare

I can't tell you where to go
as you travel back and forth
I tell you everything I know
to help you find your north.

Thimble List

Hug a stranger, create a friend,
Hug again, friendship has no end.
The first grain of sand.

Share a crooked bench, nibble a rib,
Laugh and sing and play and live.
Another grain of sand.

Share a table, bare our toes,
Take a chance, share a barefoot dance.
More and more grains of sand.

Share a heated seat, warm my heart,
Warm my hand, share our thoughts.
Play a song, share it all
Share a kiss, bare our soul

As grains of sand build a beach
Grains of time build we and each

Fill our thimble with the sand that passes
Top to bottom in each others hourglasses.

The sand reveals our pasts, and contains all our tomorrows
Each passing grain, a reminder to be here and in our nows.

The thimble's sand is a list for me and a list for you
Each grain an instant of what we've done and have yet to do