Purple petals drifting down
Scattered softly on the ground
Dry up in the summer heat
Crumbled brown beneath our feet
Buried by crisp leaves of fall
And winter’s snowy sparkling shawl
In chill spring air, green sprouts appear
The jeweled iris crowns the year
How do I chase a thing that I can’t see?
Where can I map a road that has no end?
If there is always just another bend
How do I reach a speed where I am free?
The answers drift and spin ahead of me
Just out of reach of where I can extend
My grasp within the forces that suspend
Me in this vortex of velocity
Perhaps there is an intersection here
Where moving objects meet in the stampede
If I can lift my head and learn to steer
To guide direction where the answers lead
And ride the wind in power, not in fear
And find the joy in supersonic speed
There was something
On my mind
Dig through files
Cannot find
What it was I
Had to say
It will come back
Somewhere, some way
But for now it’s
Lost in transit
Important words in
Jumbled typeset
Running stitches round a hem
Running down and up again
Piecing quilts and piecing dreams
Mending hearts and mending seams
Sewing love in many ways
Sowing seeds for future days
Pinning patterns for a shirt
Pinning plans that somehow work
Cutting fabric, cutting losses
Patching tears and patching bruises
Basting hopes in fragile strings
Basing faith on unseen things
The ache was only a mirror
A hard glass wall of fear
A trick of the light
To obscure my sight
And keep only sorrow near
The wish was only a star
A twinkling glow afar
A promise of light
That blinks out of sight
A distracting repertoire
The life was only an act
A shell with stuffing packed
A play thing too light
To keep within sight
And let me keep hiding from fact
What will happen if I let go?
Is it okay if I don’t know?
Will I see before it’s too late?
Will I lose out if I wait?
How can I survive this change?
What happens when life’s rearranged?
Will I lose the things I need?
Will I know how to succeed?
How can I keep myself on track?
How can I keep from looking back?
Will I know how to make it through?
Can I be strong and wise and true?
