The bills continue to come in The children raise their voices with needs I can’t afford Warning signs all around me from unresolved medical issues The notification of past due balances and penalties Checking account overdrawn and next pay check is still a week out The pantry is thinning and the gas tank almost onContinue reading “Slowsand”
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When we’re old
We had said you and I, We would travel the world, if our paths met again. The moment seemed impossible, Yet something inside wanted to defy, So we took comfort in a promise we made, That when we’re old…. If our paths met again….. Yet today the sunrose and you were no longer here, WhatContinue reading “When we’re old”
Waste
Waste is a by product of the sacrifice life requires. Like ashes from a fire, corpses in the aftermath of your warmth. It has great potential to haunt us, if we don’t treat this sacrifice with the respect it deserves. Life requires death, that is the payment, and it should be honored.