Ocean's Edge

Times I feel both all alone

And thoroughly connected

Come most often

Sitting at the ocean's edge.

Rumble Strips

You’re my favorite distraction, 

  The mechanical rabbit

  Racing around my track.

I need you.

You’re my radar-detector,

  The speed bump

  Saving me from myself.

I need you.

You’re my voice of caution,

  The yellow flashing light

  That slows my pace.

I need you.

You’re my rest-area-just-ahead,

  The rumble strips

  At the end of my exit ramp.

And I need you.

Broken

Of all that I've lost, of all that I've sold, 

Bartered, given up, or simply misplaced,

The thing I miss most is what I lost on that day, 

On the day that the little girl I once was

Discarded the broken doll, which, before that day,

Meant everything to her, to me.

All that I've lost, all that I've sold,

Bartered, given up, or simply misplaced, 

Is only remembered, never regained.

Last Petal

You have been gone so long, I have nothing left of you. I leave you this petal from this rose to remind you of who I once was to you, to remind myself of who you once were to me.

Shattered

I thought it made me stronger.

I thought it made me happier.

I thought it made me better.

I thought I found the answer.

I thought I found freedom.

I thought I found myself.

I thought I should stop.

I thought I would stop.

I thought I could stop.

It became my everything.

It became my reason.

It became my life.

It became my enemy.

It became my prison.

It became my grave.

Bare Trees

I have bread, and I have wine,

everything I need, but still,

the bare trees of winter crowd my soul.

Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing lasts forever.

No matter what comes my way, it is not forever.

Pain washes away,

like the rain.

Grief comes and goes

like the tide.

Even joy surges through me,

only to receed and return

like waves on the shore.

Nothing lasts forever.

Sunrise

At 5:45 in the morning, nothing has yet left a blemish on the coming day.

Gospel Tabernacle

Driving through the country, in Madison County, Georgia,

I came across a barn someone named the Gospel Tabernacle.

Today it was empty.

I'd like to stand outside

to hear the songs on a Saturday night.