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 Jul 2016 Willard Wells
Erin
Life
 Jul 2016 Willard Wells
Erin
Let me tell you something about life,
It is too short
Too short to think about yourself as anything less than amazing
Too short to sit back when you get afraid to leap into the unknown
Too short to beat yourself up about mistakes
It is too short
So get out there and live each moment
Waves of emotion
Wash over me,
Stains from hard water,
Reminding me
Who's daughter
I am.

These three walls
Carry the vibrations,
The tones,
The notes,
Bouncing around my head.
The current
Pulling back my hair,
Filling the water
With Amber waves of
Red.

And I wait patiently for
The thoughts
To jump back at me,
Like the music,
That partly drowns
Out
The shower.

Making constellations
With the freckles on my arm,
In decided desolation
I prefer my own brand
Of self harm.

Every now and then
I hear dripping,
And the ripping,
Of the seams of my reality
As I pick at each and every stitch.
I pick apart my life,
My decisions,
In my times for thought.

I tried not to be afraid,
Of the quiet,
And the silence,
But I'm more afraid I am.

Don't let your times for Thought
Be battles that you've fought.
Don't let your moments
Of reflection,
Become times of self rejection.
Don't be scared of self satisfaction,
Savor the seconds you've got.
We still meet
as friends
in rooms, but
not the home
we shared for
thirty years.
My sadness
is not for
what we lost.
My sadness
is for what we
might have been
and won’t.

mce
 Jun 2016 Willard Wells
Sjr1000
There is a cold wind
blowing outside,
into the graying,
an apocalyptic sky

The lamps are lit
The night descends
it comes as it always does
My table is cluttered
with wadded paper
scribblings saying nothing

The hanging question you asked
remains
"What is your heart's desire?"

The light it flickers
Throwing shadows on the wall
So eerie at first,
So familiar after all

Fantasies
Phantasims
Hypnogogic imagery
A trance like state of mind

Many lifetimes pass
None of them mine

What is your heart's desire
It strangles the mind with possibilities
Waiting for the tell,
the tell that might never come.

You asked me
as we left the foggy meadow
"You who speak so highly of the little synchronicites,
But what is your heart's desire? "

I rise with the sun each day
My path laid out before me
I do this and that in order

Each night as the dark descends
The day's vivid light has vanished
I stare into this lamp light
and wonder
what is my heart's desire.
 May 2016 Willard Wells
Kush
I never see your face anymore

The only image in my mind is your lovely, raven-colored hair
I once had a dream about you
You were facing away from me and woefully crying

I never figured out why

Around us, a pond of pallor was dotted with ghostly remnants of trees
While I crossed the liquid fright, your cries grew in timbre
No matter how close I was to your voice, it never seemed close enough
I stopped and quickly glanced above because the Moon was crying too

I never figured out why

The wind’s touch gently blew your night-like hair against my closed eyes
I confidently summoned all octaves residing within my soul
But before I could call your name, they caught me
Hands that sprung up from the sickness, eager to ****** my ankles
My heartbroken whisper finally stopped the weeping

I finally figured out why*

A dainty little head slowly turned so I could gaze at the jewels on its face
Two rubies cascaded, their scarlet streams plummeting off pale cheeks
While you returned to looking forwards, sobbing droplets of agony
I felt unforgiving murkiness drag me down below
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