Sometimes...

start is the same as finish

steps back move you forward

students teach teachers

helpers get help

wrong is right

away feels like h-o-m-e

distance closes gaps

it is what it can't be

one thing is everything

cats growl

love hates

strength is a weakness

winter can be hot

stories become reality

reality is fiction

Monday is Funday

waiting is better than waiting

there is entirely here

dreams come upon waking

six days are an eternity

time stands still

BUT

less is never more

silence never calms

embers never cool

games are never fun

forgotten is never remembered

asleep is never awake

partial is never complete

absent is never present

broken is never fixed

summer is never icy

sweet is never sour

truth never lies

deep is never shallow

now is never tomorrow

yesterday is never today

hi is never bye

forever is never always

memories are never forgotten

links are never broken

wrong is never right

time never stops

Gaping

I can't read you anymore.

The words are still too soothing.

Anointing my heart.

Still too raw.

Stinging from salt.

"Time heals all wounds."

There I go again

wishing time away.

It's my curse.

I'll save them though,

for a sunny day.

A day when I can look

at the scar and not bleed.

Filling time tomorrow

so I can cover my wound

from the BandAid I ripped off.

A Story...One of Many

Time, engraved on markers

Beginnings and endings

saying so much and so little.

Lives,

once filled with so much

hope, love, dreams,

now gone.

Amidst the mighty beech, elms and cedars

we brought our own

hope, love, dreams.

A fallen log, an ancient tree,

a wooden structure,

anywhere, together.

Dark woods, full of life,

and sun dappled paths

carried sounds of longing.

Others have walked this ground before us,

facing empty nights, missing their love.

It is our path too.

A sad place or a place to celebrate a life?

It is both, and now more,

to me, to us.

Oh, to return...

I long to return to a place..

that most never leave.

too much experience?

Web Definitions: experience

• to go or live through

• to know or have first hand knowledge of

• the accumulation of knowledge or skill

• to feel or undergo an emotional sensation

• In context: In the end, I can say, "I had the experience."

I went where I vowed I wouldn't. I survived.

I knew, first hand, yet didn't learn the first time.

I knew it was wrong, mounting deceit.

I felt it. It was sensational.

"I knew the experience had to end."

Time

beginning

flying

halting

passing

standing still

making

killing

sharing

keeping

fleeting

endless

flying

grounded

cherishing

cursing

rewinding

fast forwarding

always

never

reliving

forgetting

ending

Melting Away

Summer days like icicles

melting slowly drip by drip

like a ticking clock

watching time. Fall.

Icicles hanging on homes

unnoticed by those inside.

Carried and contained

as two water bearers. Fall.

The hotter the sun,

the faster they melt.

Dropping as I watch

the trees' leaves. Fall.

Summer lovers

add heat,

increasing tempo-

heartbeats. Fall.

Raindrops add to puddles

Thunder and lightning

they created. Even

shooting stars. Fall.

Water, melted,

evaporated, returns to its source.

Streaming to the ocean,

salty, as tears. Fall.