Neither good nor badI walk with eyes wide open The pull of fleeting pleasureslike a magnet for my small mind Realization flickers, yes, I know itYet delusion, faithful shadowkeeps pace beside me Together they wander the pathtoward a destination unnameda… Continue reading

It is always beginningEverything, just beginningEach moment, a new dawnbursting open Again and againa fresh starteach sunrise a newborn god Every smile, the first smilethe best smile And so often I forgethow good it issimply to be alive Continue reading

He does not know the way home Nor does he feel the spirit follow He is searching in the dark for something sacred But he has yet to realize That he just needs to stay put To let the sacred… Continue reading

Sun devours sky, sweat baptizes silence Fruit bursts, tongue learns heaven’s secret Ancestors whisper: remember, forget nothing Father was neither saint nor devil, only man Holy, wild, human: he walked among paradise Continue reading

Rain pours from a darkened skywind thrashes the trees We watch, hoping the creekwon’t overflow its banks Safe in the house, listeningto the fury of a summer storm Continue reading

The vine wraps around the bushCreeping toward the porch Delicate flowers grow from itFood for the bumblebees We know we have to tear it outBefore its hold becomes too strong But for now, I marvelAt the beauty in its reach Continue reading

The heat has brokencool air slips through the trees My mind feels lighterbut anger still visitsa blade through calm It seethes at the worldunwilling to yieldto what simply is And so I bleedalone in the refusal Continue reading

I am born with the dawna spark in breaking light By nightfall, I withermy being folded into dark At sunrise, I rise once morereborn from the fire of day At sunset, I fall againa shadow cast into silence So the… Continue reading