i have resolved
to let these moments stab me,
teach me, by reaching my core
and harming me.
it will carve me into something
daring and emboldened;
perhaps i will be smelted,
reforged--
still stronger all the same,
especially without you.

As you gaze towards the windows,
As they represent your past;
Panes coated in filth among the Shattered and broken glass..
Obscured;
Is the future,
you now struggle to view;
Remaining unseen,
Until the cleansing of you...

TC. 2020

A hummingbird moves so fast it buzzes,
but it hopes you don’t notice.

It is strange,
That I glimpsed you once from afar
In passing
And I saw you
Abandoned. In disrepair and I thought you were
Beautifully tragic.
You were alone and I did nothing
I did nothing
I did nothing but watch you crumble
I saw you again today
Again in passing
And I found that you had been
Saved. Someone had picked you up
And gathered your pieces
They built you back up and I did nothing
I did nothing
I did nothing but watch you stand.

Fair yet not-fair--
within the green
blue joist.

Ridge
gap-grown; root
bare in earth.