Poems

I came to see if you were there

Pull you from where you stare

Take you home and place you on display

On the table where I eat, but never stay

I look at you and feel pleased

Of myself for such a discovery

Fragrance and beauty exudes 

Masking stale air and plastic walls

To see you makes me feel alive

And seek another in a few months time

So that the enjoyment never ends 

And next year a new cycle begins

I feel a great weight upon my chest

Like so many others, such little rest

Festivities, activities absorb the days 

Long shadows, changing leaves invade my gaze

Rise up and down with synchronization 

How a ticking clock creates an anxious sensation

My memories of years ago 

Transport childish fears never to have let go

Tune out, look away

Memories are distorted, at least that's what I did today

Running around the twists and turns

A revelation is what I yearn 

I see a clearer point of view

Than what I've seen thus far or heard from you

I need the answers for myself

To calm this ravenous fear of self

But fear of what? I try to imagine 

Once you say it, it's gone from cognizant

Morphed in and out and I'm reaching for it

Out of breath, I've reached the deficit

Air flow is my enemy

 Stinging lungs, no more symmetry

Next time will be different

To reach that seemingly illusive goal, where it went

To someone else more deserving 

Who cared for others without unnerving  

The twist and turns are over for now

The drive within will inevitability resound