Dowsing


July 1, 2017

I search
In daylight
In the night

In crowds of faces
In the rain
In snow

In the country
In the city
Here
And there

In story
In song
And in legend…

For in my dreams
you no longer come,
As I’ve lost
too much of myself
meeting you there

And memory has fossilized,
been reimagined
in different shapes and color

And yet the same ache returns
Knowing what I’ve known
And may never experience again

But having known it
I still feel the warmth that comes
from having felt love

That lingering feeling
is what makes it
nearly impossible
to let go
entirely

And so without intention
My heart seeks
And unexpectedly
reminds endlessly,
of you

Imagined

You peek in
time to time,
reminding me
Of a dream
–The kind I cannot
quite  recall
Once awake

You vanish
And I am left
Wishing
you had stayed–
If only a moment
longer.

You are gone
And I am almost sure
I have imagined
Your very being

Recovery

April 7, 2017

Uprooted unexpectedly
Frozen
Blizzard of mind
Meeting Nor’easter
That pushed past limits

Chasing snowmen

She lost footing
Losing

Sight

Snow Blind,
she could no longer see.
Reality,
She knew not.

Lost

Blown off course
Paralyzed
Doubled over

Then
found.

Fragmented.

Then
Rebuilt
Reborn
Finding self
Emancipation.

As she walks now,
aware of
where
she has been,
what
she has been,
Done
And seen,
To recognize fact from fiction
She keeps anchor

In mind
In hand
She is shifting vision

clarifying sight

And mind.

Titans

March 16, 2016

We are Titans
Born of and dubbed,
the name.
Meek and small
We may seem
Voices quiet
But we are braves.

Untold stories line
The pages of our minds
tell tales of
the battles waged,
the deeds done,
the monsters wrestled.

We remain stoic,
unknown soldiers,
weighted still; still.

Unnoticed yet,
but standing out;
as titans
our name remains.