Paint words
across my skyline
with fluent tongue
and softened hands.

Stream life
along my shadows
through steady step and
ribboned compliments,
flowing lightly
through carefree breezes
accompanying the bitter wind.

Etch hope
into my pillow,
cradled beneath my
heavy head,
and set forth flowers,
floating through river beds
and rivulets of tear drops
in tea cups,
slipping along
with the
current.

*Set them free.