When my years are
stretched thin like elastic

that is at breaking point
or just past it

I'll be glad that I keep
my best memories deep

in the grooves
of a black slab of plastic.

thinking only of work
- eating my own business
minding my food

and manners

people small talking too
loudly with mouths full

- best get back and busy

- all this talk of ebola
isis and clowns with machetes -

slender man and little girls
- kidnapped girls forgotten

collateral damage
- somewhere else
someone else's -

hard to concentrate
on  important things
like metrics and data calls -

site density- history
- work things and holidays -
you know

i should buy pumpkins
on the way home today

- halloween is coming soon.

r ~ 10/15/14

there's a boy across a bridge

dwelling above a shop

who lights up the heart, dwelling

in the chest of a girl

who sees the boys smile

inside the eyelids she closes

whenever she catches a face full of

sunlight~

just stop
telling me
to have a
good night.
i've had enough of you
telling me what to do.

Sunup
expectations low-
another day aimed my way

- till the sky became
a color never named
and changed my world - again,

a new day.

r ~ 10/12/14

To revolutionize a whole world,
Is easier when one is young,
The tongue still limber and twisting,
Ready to enjoy and change,
But still I often forget in the moment,
And choose death once again,
Creating havoc, even in my brain,
I want to choose life, every time I choose,
I want to make strong cells, and sweet blood,
To be different, and enjoy the fruit of earth,
To be strong and good, full of You and all Your Truth,
To be fertile for the best ideas, and grow into the Greatest
Woman I could be.