songs from somewhere

songs from somewhere Mar 2020

Must we always have some one
or something
to blame for our troubles?

I woke one day and the sky
had changed. My socks were not where
I had always kept my socks.
What I believed in was no longer believable.
The colors themselves
unrecognizable

My body carried on
despite a mind's disapproval,
disbelief
discontent
discontinuation of what
was what
For this is not
as it had been planned.
The "I" has been humbled.

And all there is now
is laughter.
Laughter
or sadness
Creation
or one more blank page.

This is that day

#movingthrough

songs from somewhere Mar 2020

I have tasted

I have tasted the depths of nothingness
Like some black bark
From a tree
which does not exist

Where there are no trees

I shook my body
Day after day after day
A little something
to navigate the gray

And still

I am hesitant to rise again
As the remembrance
Of winters remain

For once in my life

I am my own man
Powerful
Naked and afraid

Just like the old men whose hands I hold

And still

I wrap my ***** as if
It is all I have ever known
And I walk

To the pond and sing

For this love
Knows nothing
Quite so true
As your arms

songs from somewhere Feb 2020

eyes by which we see

eyes by which we see
like patterns on the bark
where branches once broke free

songs from somewhere Feb 2020

Untitled

What is “work”?

songs from somewhere Feb 2020

february twentieth

I’ve watched the flames flicker

for a winter now

The ash bucket is full