Quicksand
Ground can be tricky—and
we know we’re in deep trouble
when our feet like to stand in
quicksand
Never did I stop to think the struggle
accelerates and ensures the lethal sink
I began to see each part of me
disappearing
Took a look around—one last time
Let memories invade
Certain I was the upcoming remains
underground
The darkness had won!
Curtains of clouds put out the sun
Another sucker couldn’t withstand
quicksand
Z
Suddenly Light
Lights had gone out
once again
It was dark long enough
for me to forget warmth
The idea of brightness
was nowhere to be seen
Until today
I held a random match
I found
Instinctively, I scraped
its head across a surface
Suddenly light!
I could begin
to remember
Z
The Prey
I threw away his homework
because he called me ugly
He had many things disappear
that year
I felt better and better
each and every single day
People really should know:
They ask for it when they
pick on other people—
Bullies can become
the prey
Z
The Finale
Let’s be clear—I’m here
Naked and molding
Into the ground
My amygdala was shot
Out of the cannon
Into the sky
For the last time
Maybe I’ll stay
Maybe I’ll fly away
Come see this retiree
Confident and quite sure
He has nowhere to be
Z
No Ocean
Doesn’t matter how far
you could go away from me—
I’d still have you.
You’d still have me.
Even if we were to never see
each other again,
one thing I know for certain:
No ocean could keep us apart.
Z
I won’t forget
I will no longer see
the memories
and feel sadness
and loss.
I can feel its power
when I see the past.
When we lose connection,
we shouldn’t forget what
we’ll always have:
Our experiences together.
Even when we aren’t
entirely together,
we can still pick up a phone
and laugh.
Z
Fire and Metal
There may be danger
involving fire and metal.
He’s looking down, now—
from the sky.
He laughed at me.
There was no way
I could ride away.
The only thing I could do
was sit and grab the handles.
Then, I saw a road—
on a trip I was taking.
Wind blew and found me
Unafraid.
She releases
She tries to find the reason
she feels absolutely drained
Anxieties inhale her sleeping
when she carries the weight
of a heavy day
Oh, life really is quite silly
she laughs—
and dips a toe into her bath
Water provides relief
and she releases everything
Z
Glue she never knew
She forgot she believed
she was going to leave
There was a place somewhere
waiting to be her true destiny
But, the glue she never knew
was underneath her feet—
has left her stuck no longer trying
to be where she could be
Z
The Smile I Found
A smile came to me
on the other side of the trees
after I flew over the stony wall
today, in a daydream
Thank you, dear pilot
for taking me in your helicopter
to meet a special tour guide
I thought I always knew
We walked about and explored
the colors I’d never seen
until the pilot shouted
C’mon, we must leave
I looked back, as I ran—
so scared I wouldn’t remember
the details of my tour guide’s face
Then, I received an indelible smile
to carry away from my new favorite place
Both my last blog post called Puddle of Gold and today’s came from weird, awesome dreams I have been having. I love when I manage to remember and, hopefully, write down my dreams. Like the face of the tour guide, I often find many details of my dreams to be a bit blurry, but not all of them. Also, I was thinking about the difficulty I can have remembering the face of I person I find intriguing, not long after we have met. I am going to keep trying to remember my dreams.
Z
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