I checked
on
your cat
while
you were
away,
because I
didn't
want you
to
worry about
her.

I have spent my life,
Living in the past,
Avoiding the present
And absolutely petrified of the future.

I walked down the
street
and bought you some
medicine
to help ease your
toothache,
because I can't stand
idly
by while you're in
pain.

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today

There's nothing quite
like
a fresh bed-sheet
out
of the dryer
spread
across my mattress
that
gives me the
feeling
of a goodnight's
sleep.

They say that God lives very high;
  But if you look above the pines
You cannot see our God; and why?

And if you dig down in the mines,
  You never see Him in the gold,
Though from Him all that’s glory shines.

God is so good, He wears a fold
  Of heaven and earth across His face,
Like secrets kept, for love, untold.

But still I feel that His embrace
  Slides down by thrills, through all things made,
Through sight and sound of every place;

As if my tender mother laid
  On my shut lids her kisses’ pressure,
Half waking me at night, and said,
  “Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser?”

sun bleeds red
through closed eyelids
can’t escape the day