Everyday Poetry

In a time when love was impossible

I have no shame

Knowledge is power;

Misery is no companion to keep

If ignorance gives me bliss

The white sand garden that used to sit on the coffee table in my grandma’s sunroom

Every cloud a perfect zigzagged streak across the sky

With peaks like mountains kissed by the setting sun

Wreaked endlessly by the shifting air

Like I used to wreak the sand garden

Over and over

Carving my own patterns into the world

Just like the breeze blowing endlessly through the dunes of this desert sky

Always changing like the wind

If I carve my patterns in the sand

If you’re like me

And prefer not to be wasteful

It’s something you find in a moment you were least expecting to

Maybe it’s

The seasonal isle at the grocery store

Or your go to spot for the last minute outfit addition

But the allure of something extra ordinary pulls you in

And you start picking up the glass jars the spike you’re interest

It’s not just enough to be attracted to the container

No matter how much the color caught you’re eye

Or the shape and patter sparked interest

You also have to love what’s inside

Every person is looking for something unique in this moment

Whether they are aware of it or not

It catches us by surprise

What holds our attention

And leaves us wanting more

But there’s more than that

There’s the love that comes when you though there should be nothing left

There’s the coin jar with you’re favorite print of falling pine needles

There’s the iridescent blue sphere that holds the cactus you had been wanting and finally found the perfect one

There is a life time of possibility

Of what that candle could come to mean to you

I’d it not absolute kismet that the two should find each other

The beholder with instant attachment

Boy and girl

That were came to know me

Body and soul

And never turned away, but embraced

I have let myself become a part of you

The lines blurred between where

One starts and the other begins

The spirits so familiar they blend at the joining

Thank you for embracing that connection

No matter how much I may have feared it

My life would be overwhelming in every sense without you to support me

And to the two that made me one

The love you poured into nurturing me

Body and soul

Both contributing in unexpected ways

To the person I’d become

My gratitude and love is undying

My life would be directionless in every way without you to help guide me

And to the kindered spirt

We may have passed in a store,

picking up our coffee,

Or maybe our paths have never crossed

Thank you for seeing what I’ve put out into the world

Every happy memory I make

I give you more power over me

Will you stay

And love me the way you promise to

Or will you leave

Will I be left alone

Sitting in the dark and silence

Because I gave everything

Are the struggles

Forced together by circumstance

Fall in love

Is that love inevitable

Of two people in such situation;

Or were those two people

Always destined to find each other

Always believes

One wreaks of realism

I’d drift endlessly through

A sea of time and space

How did I exist

Before you were here

Started dating in September

I knew I loved him in December

He told me in February

2 became 3 in June

And 9 months later brought us you

Melting

Every time you call me

Now I see,

And moments when they can’t be found

Remember in the silence

Your presence is enough

No one will remember what you said

I live in the light

I felt you in every bone in my body

For that brief moment

I think our souls touched

Kindered spirits

Twisting around one another